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!
Update: Poll closed.
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Sent that to congress (or who ever makes this decision). I really love the map you found.
End DST, sign the petition at the link below.
http://www.standardtime.com/
If I understand it correctly when we ‘fall back’ it is actually giving us more daylight during our awake hours also. Winters have shorter days with less light no matter what we do with our clocks, the falling back just gives spreads the daylight out a smidge. I for one am a fan. Sorry Jenni.
No need to be sorry, Debbie! I know that there are people who like it. And, I actually voted for “I like to ‘fall back,’ but I don’t like to ‘spring forward,’” because that’s really what it comes down to for me.
I loved falling back until we had kids…they don’t know that it’s now 5 am, to them it feels like 6 am, so they’ll be up…it is torture. They do much better with springing forward (whahooo, we’re getting up at 7 pm these days!). I hate the lot. Seriously, can we just let the time alone!?