Daylight Saving Time

First and foremost, it is daylight saving time - not daylight savings time. The latter would imply that we are warehousing daylight for later use - like a bank savings account.

Every year I complain about this ridiculous practice. It makes no difference to me which way the time is set, but put it one way and leave it that way. Arizona and Hawaii get along just fine by leaving it alone. Perhaps there was a time when making more daylight available in the afternoon was useful. But, my question is, "even then, why didn’t they just get up an hour earlier?" That’s what farmers, ranchers and the military do. And, that’s what is really happening anyway.

Again with my age old story told by Ernie Ford, "daylight saving time is like cutting a foot off one end of a blanket and sewing it to the other end to make it longer." Strangely, there a lot of people that think that works.

If daylight saving time is so great, why not just work, or do whatever you do, seven days per week during the months with longer days and take off early two extra days when the days are shorter? I know, you couldn’t go to the beach. Better hope the environmental folks don’t hear about my idea, or they will get it implemented to keep you off the beach.

So, anyway, I have turned my clocks back already - Saturday afternoon. That means I have saved two hours of daylight doesn’t it?

To the roosters that crow at dawn to wake up the farmer who is already up in the dark and the chickens that go to roost at sundown, having lost sleep because they had to get up in the dark, I’m sorry.

Animals are smarter than humans.

PMO
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