Time changes and I don’t mix very well.  I have a hard time adjusting because I usually go to bed and wake up at such specific times and my body doesn’t want to cooperate with the change very well.  (When I used to travel for work, this was always hard to deal with when I traveled east.  It’s not such an ordeal when I traveled west because I just went to bed and woke up earlier.)  The spring Daylight Saving Time change affects me the same way traveling east does.  It’s probably not hard for you to imagine that I hate Daylight Saving Time.

Frankly, I don’t see the point of Daylight Saving Time and I really wish Utah (or the U.S.) would follow Arizona’s and Hawaii’s lead and do away with it completely.  In fact, there are several countries that have never used Daylight Saving Time or don’t use it anymore.

I realize Daylight Saving Time gives us less light during the mornings and more light during the afternoons when we’re actually awake and doing something.  But, it seems to me, that this just makes winter seem longer once Daylight Saving Time ends in November.  I’d think that we’d want more light during the winter when the days are shorter.  Why don’t we just “spring ahead” and never “fall back?”  That way, we have the benefits of Daylight Saving Time in the afternoon during the summer and our days will seem longer during the winter too.  It seems like a win/win situation to me and it won’t disrupt our sleep schedule, except the one time!