Daylight Saving Time
March 10, 2008
The Daily Tannenbaum brings up a great point about Daylight Saving: It sucks.
I’m firmly on her side when it comes to getting out of work when it’s black out and getting up when it’s black out. Changing the clocks just seems so pointless.* And I don’t know about you, but I feel like the light will never come back in the fall. Already I have issues with the darkest quarter of the year. Every October I feel as though all the life has been sucked out of me — I get very despair-esque — but I know the light will return on December 22 so I cheer up on the 21st.
And he were are, March 10th, two days after our latest brush with DST, and it’s f’n freezing out there. Sure Sun is bright and Sky is blue, but Air is frigid and it’s been like this off and on for weeks, in between snow storms and freezing rain storms. There’s ice and snow everywhere. There isn’t much melting going on. No, no, it’s more of the same: cold and icy. Doesn’t seem like DST did us any good being moved back this far in the year.
But here’s my question: at what end do we stop? That is, if we’ve already moved the clocks ahead — we did on Saturday — don’t we *have* to move the clocks back in the fall just to keep the balance? So, if that’s the way it needs to be done for balance sake, that means we don’t change the clocks next spring.
Or
Does the balance even matter? I mean, time is a false construct. That is, the way we tell time is a false construct. Certainly time passes, we have indications of that every day!, but the way in which we measure it isn’t “accurate”. Fiddling with time as we have been — spring ahead, fall behind — we’re throwing off the balance. So maybe the balance does matter.
*I’m sure I’d feel different if I were a full time farmer. But I’m not. Yet. (Via Allie’s Answers)
Thanks for the link!
It’s freaking freezing here too. I might be a little less of a scrooge about DST if it didn’t feel subarctic out right now.
Overall, I think I like DST better than standard time, but DST is the “wrong” time. Maybe we should just split the difference and turn the clocks back a half hour. It all seems set in stone, but it’s just made up, and it’s not like the amount of sunshine we get during the day is any different, anyway.
Allie: You’re welcome! I was blogging around last night and came to your site from The Daily Tannenbaum.
I’m with you on the whole subarctic cold. Sun looks so enticing out there but it’s just so treacherous with all the damned ice.
Noelle: I came to you from The Extra Ordinary in case you were wondering.
It just seems so fruitless to be moving the clocks around arbitrarily. I think it’s one of those things which should go the way of the dodo: extinct. It just doesn’t seem to serve any purpose.
I’m with you sister! Daylight Savings was started way back, presumably to assist farmers, but with the advent of electricity it seems rather pointless. I hear there are some states that don’t recognize time changes, maybe Arizona? Interesting whether other states in the US will follow suit…