At 2 AM on Sunday, we move the clock ahead one hour. At one time, there were good reasons to do this--when we were an agrarian society, when more daylight working hours aided in a war effort, when streets and roads weren't lighted at night.
I even made sense (or at least more sense) when the amount of the year we spent in "standard" time was greater than or equal to the amount we spent in "daylight saving" time. But it isn't that way now. We now spend 7-1/2 months--something like 30 weeks of a 52-week year--living one hour ahead of the sun...and only 22 weeks in line with the sun.
If this is a benefit for nearly 60 percent of the year, why not just continue it for the whole calendar and not bother setting the clocks back an hour at the end of October? Sure it will make winter mornings and late afternoons a bit darker...but the overall number of hours of daylight won't change.
Think about it.
1 comment:
The justification I've always heard is that in the more northern/western climes it means young children leave for school in darkness. Personally I LOVE daylight savings time, particularly in summer.
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