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Time switch (again)

I like daylight saving time.. it saves daylight! Well, I like the longer days anyway. At least it raises the possibility of going for a run in the park after work (naturally, not the actuality of it). What I don't like is the switch -- it throws my inner clock out of whack, and frankly, I'm not a morning person.

If daylight saving time gives us more hours of daylight in the 'live-able' hours of the day therefore saving electricity, sanity and calories.. why the bloody hell don't we just stay on it? Why switch (by which I mean switch-back to non-DST)? Let Arizona and those other backwater states stay in their timewarp and the rest of us can enjoy nice evenings full of sunlight.

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Because it's REALLY dark in the morning during the winter. Without switching back the sun wouldn't come up until 9 in the morning (depending on where you live).

If you want to always get that extra hour, couldn't you just wake up an hour earlier?

DST is basically the result of what happens when people take satire seriously. Benjamin Franklin was writing a satirical piece extolling the virtues of DST in order to make fun of one of his pseudo-intellectual contemporaries. Much later, another pseudo-intellectual wanker found this essay, thought it was serious, and started extolling the virtues. Much much later, government officials who were trying to figure out ways of saving natural resources in order to help the war effort came across this second wanker's garbage, saw that it was quoting Benjamin Franklin, didn't realize the greater context, and then the modern idea of Daylight Savings Time was born.

Because due to other circumstances that are not under my control, I simply cannot get to work earlier than I do now.. and I really cannot leave an hour early just because I feel like it. Every day, that is.

Uh, Arizona doesn't observe DST. Phoenix and Tucsan are pretty happening places - much more reasonable places to live in every aspect compared to Boston/NYC/San Fran/LA.

http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/daylight_saving_time.shtml

Right.. isn't that what I said? The "backwater" comment was about not observing DST.. anyway, it was just a joke, don't take it to heart.

I wouldn't say it's "backwater", actually they're pretty smart - it's so hot in Arizona in the summer that they're NOT interested in more daylight hours. That's why they don't observer DST.