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The Downside To Daylight Saving Time
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I see articles about this every November and March. While I would love to stay on DST year around, changing the clocks twice a year is not that big of a deal. It’s hard to believe that 1 hour can cause all of the health issues that have been batted around for the last decade in these articles. I myself laugh at these claims. Try rotating shifts for 21 years, then get back to me.
Before I retired, I enjoyed the extra hour of daylight during the spring, summer, and fall months. Now retired, it doesn’t make much difference. Commuting during the winter, I would leave home in darkness, but the sun would rise before I arrived at work. I would arrive at home during darkness. Having daylight saving time in the winter, that extra hour would be fleeting. Plus there’s the safety factor, that extra hour of darkness, would mean an extra hour of darkness for kids waiting for the school bus.
On a fun note, we had a Beagle that could “tell time”. At 7 PM, Zeus would be at the back door, barking, telling us that it was dinner time. Springing forward would tripped him up for a few days because he would be an hour early telling us that it was dinner time. For the first few days of falling back he enjoyed getting dinner an hour early.
I just want the time changes to stop. Pick one of the standards and stick with it.
Most of the reasons for DST in the first place are no longer relevant. As for kids waiting for the school bus… has anyone checked the parking lots at high schools not to mention the long lines of parents dropping their kids off of elementary and middle school… either way doesn’t matter to me.