HUMBUG, IT'S DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

By Dan Miller
March 11, 2008

Sorry, I just don't understand the appeal of Daylight Saving Time.

Did you know that D-S-T is probably the main reason for the demise of drive-in theaters in this country?
That's reason enough right there to abandon it.

Growing up in Georgia, we didn't observe D-S-T during my childhood.
We simply lived on Eastern Standard Time year round, and I don't recall it ever presenting a problem.
As a matter of fact, I fondly remember those warm summer evenings after the sun went down.
We'd sit out on the porch, or in the yard, and talk -- with crickets usually joining in the conversation, and lightning bugs putting on a show.

Nowadays, by the time the sun goes down in the spring and summer, it's pretty much bedtime for lots of folks.
No more lingering, lazy summer evenings.

And really, isn't D-S-T little more than a case of stealing from Peter to pay Paul?
We shift things so the "afternoon people" will get more sunshine... and we do it by taking sunlight away from the "early morning people."
Is that really fair to the early risers?

If it's so important to stack sunshine at the close of the day, why don't we just move the clocks forward an hour, maybe two hours.... and leave it that way.... for good... 12 months out of the year?
That would eliminate all the "twice yearly madness" of changing our clocks.
It would also make things more manageable for farmers and ranchers, whose animals don't care what the clock says.... they go strictly by nature's timetable.

And here's something else to ponder.
I saw a letter to the editor of a newspaper last year from a person concerned that adding the extra hour of sunlight was a contributing factor in global warming.
Huh??

Oh, and I recall a woman years ago expressing serious concern that the extra hour of sunlight would damage her garden.

So it's clear the extra hour of sunlight isn't making us any brighter!

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