Day Light Savings Time

A person hearing about daylight savings time would exclaim, "Is this some kind of a mean joke?".  I completely understand that questions.  I mean, do we truly need to mess with our clocks twice a year?  In order to do what exactly?  I believe at one time it was meant to conserve electricity so we better made use of the sunlight into the evening.  Guess what? Technology and new cars are shattering that initiative.  I think I would rather have the extra hour of daylight in the winter so that when I get home from a days work I don't leave in the dark and come home in the dark.  

What's wrong with the sun going down in the evening anyway?  I go to Mexico whenever I can and typically thats between November and April.  After 6 pm in Mexico...it's starting to get dark!!  I actually travel to a place that is light in the morning and gets dark in early evening to escape the winter here.  Messing around with the clocks just seems unnecessary.  

This past weekend we "sprung ahead".  Was it nice to have some daylight while we ate supper? Yes absolutely, but can't we just leave it there now?  Why do we "fall back"? I can't think of any good reason other than university students feeling like they hit the lottery with an extra hour at the bar that night! 

I don't know the reason, but it always seems like there is some kind of early morning event that happens on the Sunday morning of Daylight savings time.  There always seems to be the one or two people that miss it.  Sorry, I totally forgot to put my clock ahead.  I completely missed all the newspapers, Facebook posts, and radio bulletins when I was under my rock.  I'm not sure about anyone else, but in our house the night before it's a constant reminder.  "Well really its 7 PM". "No, its currently 6 PM"..."Tomorrow morning it will be 5 AM  when I get you up"...."No it will be 6 AM"...."Yes, but it will really be 5 AM"...and so on. It's basically a Seinfeld episode for the evening. The same chatter goes on pretty much all of Sunday and disappears like the hour did on Monday. 

I bet if they actually included this in a voting platform in the next election, more people would actually care to come out and vote.  People would care more about this item alone than the stories that seethe through the teeth of the party leaders in a typical election.  Maybe it's just the sleep debt talking but I would give serious consideration to the person that put that in their reforms.  

Yes, time is a funny thing.  It's currently a different time in every other province West of me.  Newfoundland has seen 30 extra minutes already.  Once time passes, its spent they say. You can never get it back.... Well at least till the Fall.

 

 

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