Once again we've gone through the twice-a-year time warp from the clocks throughout most of America being moved ahead an hour. And once again there are numerous people complaining about the inconvenience.
Naturally, there's an accompanying push-back due to that inconvenience where people want only one time-set. Truth be told, I also wish the ritual was finally done away with; however, I disagree with anyone and everyone who wants to eliminate Daylight Savings Time [DST]. Their reasoning is that they don't want to lose that hour of sleep when the clocks jump forward, nor do they want to lose the extra hour of sleep when the clocks fall back.
Admittedly, I can empathize with that line of reasoning, but it's frankly shortsighted.
My preference, along with the preference of Benjamin Franklin, who initiated the concept of daylight savings time, would be to simply remain switched to daylight savings time. Even with it being darker in the morning during DST.
Granted, if we followed the example of pre-Columbian Native Americans, then we might be happier in general as they never centered their lives around a mechanical device meant to measure the position of the Earth in relation to its relative position on its axis in relation to the sun.
But since we're so programmed to measure every second at a minimum, then I've always concluded that DST is preferable by far. Ultimately, the length of time the sun shines in comparison to daylight and night time never actually changes, only our perception of it does.
- Rev. J.T. Smith
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