Anachronistic Daylight Savings Time

Anachronistic Daylight Savings Time

 

If you didn’t spring forward at 2 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) and re-set your clocks ahead to 3 a.m. Daylight Savings Time (DST) on March 9th since it’s the second Sunday in March, you’re already late, or early, or something.  

That is, unless you never bothered to fall back and re-set those same clocks from 2 a.m. (DST) to 1 a.m. (EST) last November 3rd since it was the first Sunday in November, in which case you’re right on schedule though you may have been early, or late, for the last four months. 

That is, unless you’re smarter than the rest of us and live in Arizona or Hawaii, states that have always stayed on God’s Own Time (GOT) and have always rejected the idea of playing the annual American Clock Silliness Game (CSG).

Got all that?

The bad news that you’re losing an hour’s DST sleep today is offset when you recover that hour come November 2 this year EST but nothing ameliorates the fact that the concept of Daylight Savings Time is an antiquated anachronism that has outlived its usefulness, if it ever had any.

Widely regarded as a twentieth century brainchild, DST was actually first suggested in 1784 by one of our Founding Fathers, Ben Franklin, as a method of conserving candles . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36202.)