At 2am in the morning, Daylight Savings Time starts. I have to admit that I’m none too happy about loosing an hour when time is so precious. Yeah, I know about the supposed energy savings but around here, it means nothing. Instead of working til 2am, I’ll just be working til 3am. And fighting to get out of bed every morning.
When I was a kid, I remember how many folks would show up for church an hour late – because they forget to set their clocks ahead. It was especially entertaining when DST happened to take place on Easter Sunday. Now that I’m older, it isn’t nearly as funny.
Every year in the fall when we “fall back,” I say that I’m going to stay on the DST schedule. That lasts maybe two weeks, even though I still have some of my clocks set to DST. Since the change to DST usually takes place later, it doesn’t bother me nearly as much. I’ve usually stopped taking appointments and am just working through my inventory of returns to do, working whatever hours I need to. Not this year. I already know I’m going to be tired, tired, tired for the next few weeks as I fight through trying to change my sleep schedule.
You know, why not just pick one – either DST or EST – and stick with it?
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
The justification for daylight saving time is that we need to move our daily schedule back and forth with the seasons so everyone can start work right around sunrise. This kind of herd mentality — that everyone needs to go to work at 8 am and home again at 5 pm — is one of the main sources of our continued transportation crisis, which is as much an issue of peak load capacity as anything. Getting away from that might encourage more distribution of work hours through the day, which would help a lot.
And in the age of the Internet, people more and more are working and playing with others halfway around the world. Their need to interact and schedule is making regional time zones themselves a bit archaic. There’s no magical reason why days have to begin in the middle of the night. It was a convenience to set the middle of the day at local noon, and we began to abandon that when we developed time zones 120 years ago. Daylight saving time was a further step away; local noon is now closer to 1 pm most of the year. So why not just get rid of time zones altogether, and put time on a simple scale?
Well, after spending some time yesterday making sure that all of my computers were updated properly, I discovered that my calendar program (Outlook in Office 2003) needed to be updated separately. 👿
We don’t need no stinkin’ DST.
I know, I just discovered that about Outlook as well. Sheesh.
I agree – put the danged clocks somewhere and just leave them ALONE. We don’t need to be jerked around like this.
My laptop updated itself, but I have trouble dealing with the time change anyways. Seriously, I have the worst sense of time on the planet, and this does not help in any way.