Opinion
Standard Time , Please
Daylight Saving Time was one of the worst tricks to ever be placed on people since the other bad things we placed upon ourselves. We didn't even standardize time until 1883. It could be anytime zone you wanted it and people just had to accept it. It's 5:31pm in Saint Paul but 6:09pm in Minneapolis ...good. Anyway, the trains did all that, and the world standardized time. Good.
Back to Daylight Saving Time. Don't blame Ben Franklin for this dumb tradition, he was joking. Apparently, it's either people in later years couldn't read jokes any more or they just wanted to scapegoat a dead guy, and I hope he haunted them until their final breathes.
This is going from an American view, so sorry non-American country readers, though many of you would live in a country sane enough to not do Daylight Saving time.
So here's a dumb idea: hey it's 2am, nah, screw you , it's 3AM now, and there's nothing you can do about it. Why? Beacuse someone said let's do this every year, in 2007, they even moved it up to the 2nd Sunday of March, which for something called Spring forward, sure takes up time before Spring and it's called summer time, it sure goes seep into fall, by the first Sunday of November.
But, yes you lose sleep that one day, but the problem with modern industrial society, is that we follow clocks. "Hey you, go to work at 8AM" no matter what its 8AM, so now you have to adjust do something you used to at 8AM now at the former 7AM because some jerk said it's 8AM now. It's pure stupidity.
Put your pitchforks down, those are for farmers, and by the way, farmers shouldn't be blamed for the suffering inflicted upon us. You see, farmers, work on their own time. They use daylight yes, but the animals follow the sun, like humans used to do, until we decided that we'd rather not and wonder why things are screwed up. Your cat, doesn't tell time, they don't care if you moved your clock up from 5am to 6am , they'll still meow at at you when they feel like it. The farmers follow animal time, not your weird scheduling. The vegetables and fruits don't follow time; corn doesn't need your stupid clocks.
It's called Daylight Saving Time (not savings, cut that out!) funny enough, you aren't saving energy. You're aren't. Kids have to go to school, schools use energy, moving the clock up one hour doesn't change the energy usage. They aren't holding classes outside, and still have to use electric lights. Going to work in your prison cubes? Your prision cube uses power and you still have to work the same amount of time in your prision cube.
Good work, Daylight Saving Time is both a lie in both saving you time and energy. "But, I'm going outside more...because the sun is still up at 6:39PM" , In May, the sun would still be up at 6:39PM on year-round standard time, and two, no you aren't. Plus, if you are, which you aren't, you might be using your car, you are still using energy and the sun would still be up between April and October at 6:39pm in standard time.
"But I enjoy the sun being up at 8:02pm in July" , No you don't it's 88 degrees, the high was 99, what are you talking about? If you do, I better see you out there, between 6-9pm , just be outside. Most are inside wondering what they've done to deserve this hot death punishment. The sun going down at the standard time would be some relief from the death laser of the sun baking our internals as we wish for the sweet relief of death.
What? Oh yeah, every answer the pro-DST people can give is weak and flimsy like the gas milage of the 1992 Chevy Suburban. Also, "But we get more daylight in the evening" ah, but a later morning, when we still have people locked to time, yay!
It is good for business, that's right! Many of you use your "extra sunlight" not for sunlight stuff, but you go shopping so that everyone can see that you bought stuff with your money. Like I said before, the sun would still naturally be up, because nature, and how everything is set up: at 7pm in the month of may, doing in March when it's still slightly cold is just an excuse.
I could bring up the stuff you see all the time like Daylight Saving Time has increased car-accidents, but I'll give to the fact the weather changing, more people are out in general. The morning hours during the early months of DST also don't help because of that locked time you have to do, but it still being dark, and yet, the functions of society pretend this makes sense. Heart Attacks, but the problem there is that there's bad sleeping habits in our society and more stress , and Daylight Saving time doesn't help that in it's first few weeks.
The drudgery of having to adjust and some saying "you should get over it" as you are being gaslighted into being told the old 7am is 8am now, when you know it's 7am.
What I am for, is not year-round Daylight Saving Time, let me be clear. Daylight Saving time is the time where the clocks get set hour head on the 2nd Sunday in March and ending on first Sunday in November, which is the return of Standard time. If you see time as EDT (Eastern Daylight Time, only use that between those months) otherwise between November and March it would be EST (Eastern Standard Time). I don't think we need year-round daylight saving time. I am for year-round standard time and the revocation of daylight saving time altogether.
Now, if a state like Florida or somewhere finds benefit in having DST, then a state or city/county can decide, but I want standard time as the standard. You set the clock back one last time in November and never look back (ironic), in March, the clock stays the way, the Sun and Earth will do it's thing and we don't have to worry. States like Arizona and Hawaii (mostly) don't observe DST, and live in standard time. (They are not on year round DST) They are doing fine, Hawaii still has summer visitors, and Arizona still has a low of 91 degrees in the summer time.
Really, the concept shows how much unnecessary things we have in our society and the idea of getting rid of it makes sense. America has a bad sleep problem already, it would be better if we had investments in making it better for Americans to have healthier sleep and conducive society, instead of a clock change that doesn't do anything of use. It's mostly built on false promises and promotions.
So yes, I'm against Daylight Saving Time, I'm against year-round Daylight Saving Time, I'm against it starting so early, and in March. I'm for year-round standard time fully. I don't like proposals that make it year-round DST ,promoted as a solution to the change pain. I think they are promoted that way to make sure people don't notice and would rather do anything to get rid of a time change, instead of clarity.
Maybe one day, foolishness could take a holiday for a moment and we have a thought to get rid of this slightly meaningless thing. It's not the biggest problem in our society, but it's the little things. Also, if you think this post is a joke, future reader, I'm going to haunt you.
