Spring Forward Faster. Daylight Savings Time starts on Sunday. I love Daylight Savings Time — especially that first evening when you realize it’s 7 pm but still light outside. But isn’t it weird that we’re on “standard” time for less than half the year? It would make more sense for the seven-month period of Daylight Savings Time to be called Standard. Or maybe Standard Time can be called Moonlight Savings Time.
At any rate, I agree with the author. We should have more DST, and it should run from mid-March through early November. Actually, we could change the name of “Standard Time” to “Winter Time” and “Daylight Savings Time” to “Standard Time.”
Sure, this would make lots of old crossword puzzles obsolete, but whatever. Sunlight goooood.
We don’t change time here in Arizona. It is rather annoying because the East Coast is suddenly three hours different instead of two.
I believe that Daylight Savings Time is yet another aspect of our society (like the regular school calendar) left over from a time when we were a primarily agrarian society and everything needed to be adjusted around the schedule of working the land and harvesting the crops.
I think we (as a society) need to take a look at some of these traditions and evaluate them as they apply to life in the 21st century and make changes.
Why do we have “standard” time at all? Everyone loves sunlight. Do children really need 3 months off in the summer?
I’m betting that that a hue segment of the population would decry any changes simply on the basis of tradition, but I think it would be useful to figure these things out and move forward, rather than being stuck in an 19th century rut.
I betcha a huge segment of America would rejoice if we scrapped this needless agrarian trick of the clock.
People need to deal with the fact that, like it or not, the days become longer/shorter at different times of the year, and just suck-it-up and get their arses to the office. Anyhows, most of us who keep this economy going are well up before dawn and still working well after sunset. Clearly this is merely one more bizarro, resent-driven, Middle American quasi-religious custom being forced upon the rest of us well-meaning, hard-working, pro-union Americans.
First they start changing our clocks, and just you watch, next they’ll be forcing us all to have permanent feeding tubes.
Actually, it has nothing to do with agrarian society–farmers have always hated the switch. (Animals keep waking up at the same time, but the farmers have to adjust the rest of their schedule around the arbitrarily changed clocks.)
And forgive the pedantry, but: it’s formally Daylight SAVING Time, not SavingS Time.