Daylight Savings Time: Can We Just Keep It?

So for yet another year we turned back the clock and are now in Standard Time once again.

I fucking hate Standard Time. It gets dark now around 5:30. That is ridiculous. That SUCKS, in fact. Why don't we just keep it on Daylight Savings time? If we were to keep Daylight Savings time throughout winter, it would be dark in the morning, true. But on Standard time, it's light a bit earlier in the morning and we lose the tiny fraction of after-work light we might of otherwise had. It's depressing to think that I'm wasting all my daylight in a cubicle staring at a computer screen!

Then there is the turning all the clocks back. It’s a hassle! There are seven clocks in my house, five devices that have an internal clock that needs set, the clock in my car, and I have three watches. All need changed. Why should we bother?

In addition to personal preference, there are some practical reasons for this consideration. Not only does keeping it lighter longer save a bit of electric by us having our lights off during daylight hours, but lost productivity brought about by the general "local jet-lag" feeling that comes with every time change from us resetting our internal clocks will be eliminated. Plus, I dunno about you, but every car accident I've ever had -last week's deerstrike included- has occurred after dark due to visibility concerns. Driving home in the dark sucks! Keep it lighter and let people with long trips get back!

So what if one year is missing an hour? What’s an hour in the grand scheme of human history? Not a whole damn lot! But sacrificing one hour for that year will give us more daylight for ourselves and eliminate all the pain-in-the-ass effects of our twice-a-year timechange. It’s time to streamline the process and just stick to Daylight Savings!

Rock on, kids.