Zach LarkinsDST
Talk about a slow news day. In fact, it must have been a slow news week. All week we've been inundated with the horrific news that Daylight Saving Time starts this weekend instead of the first Sunday of April as in years gone by. Whatever will we do? I'm sure someone will link this to glo-bull warming in the fact that the extended daylight hours will help melt the polar ice-caps that much faster. Quick, go warn Gore.
We've seen news anchors trot out the experts, you know, the psychologists, the neurologists and a few soothsayers to find out just how badly this event is going to affect us all. Excuse me? What the hell difference does it make if we turn our clocks ahead this weekend or 3 weeks from now? Absolutely none.
My wife pointed out that the clocks are set ahead on Saturday night so that we have time to adjust on Sunday. Bull feathers. Our biological clocks are still on EST all Sunday long. The clocks will tell us it's 1 PM while our bodies tell us it's only 12 PM. The crux of the matter shows up on Monday morning when we have to get up to go to work. That's when you'll notice you lost an hours worth of sleep. And it will still take you about a week to adjust to the new time, whether it is done today, tomorrow or 3 weeks down the road.
I don't like DST. I've always had a hard time with it. Ostensibly it is to save energy. I have to ask what difference does it make if I have a light on at night or first thing in the morning? None. And as for the generosity of giving back to us what was stolen in the first place, I don't buy it. If I try to lay out DST and the return to EST in a sine curve, it just doesn't work. You have an hour taken away from you in the spring. In the fall, you are given it back. I think you should get back 2 hours to make up for the initial theft.
And as a parting thought, will the TV show 24 become 23 for that one day? DST is for the birds, but the media really are making something out of nothing on this one.
We've seen news anchors trot out the experts, you know, the psychologists, the neurologists and a few soothsayers to find out just how badly this event is going to affect us all. Excuse me? What the hell difference does it make if we turn our clocks ahead this weekend or 3 weeks from now? Absolutely none.
My wife pointed out that the clocks are set ahead on Saturday night so that we have time to adjust on Sunday. Bull feathers. Our biological clocks are still on EST all Sunday long. The clocks will tell us it's 1 PM while our bodies tell us it's only 12 PM. The crux of the matter shows up on Monday morning when we have to get up to go to work. That's when you'll notice you lost an hours worth of sleep. And it will still take you about a week to adjust to the new time, whether it is done today, tomorrow or 3 weeks down the road.
I don't like DST. I've always had a hard time with it. Ostensibly it is to save energy. I have to ask what difference does it make if I have a light on at night or first thing in the morning? None. And as for the generosity of giving back to us what was stolen in the first place, I don't buy it. If I try to lay out DST and the return to EST in a sine curve, it just doesn't work. You have an hour taken away from you in the spring. In the fall, you are given it back. I think you should get back 2 hours to make up for the initial theft.
And as a parting thought, will the TV show 24 become 23 for that one day? DST is for the birds, but the media really are making something out of nothing on this one.
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