Many things in life are inflicted upon us that are irritating, aggravating, and infuriating. Taxes, of course, are an obvious example. And then there's Daylight Savings Time (DST). In 2022 we did the "fall back" on November 6, and in 2023 will “spring forward” on March 12. Twice a year we must all go through the tedious ritual of resetting all our clocks, both the physical ones and the internal ones inside our bodies. And there's ample evidence out there that this semi-annual clock reset causes big-time sleep deprivation that harms us in many ways.
Thank you for this article. I would like to know just who benefits now from keeping DST. Since inception, the number of days/months that DST takes has increased. Who benefitted from the increase? The entire notion of DST reeks of human manipulation and it's insulting, yet typical. The concept that humans know better than the solar system [on which the calendar is based] is credit to human arrogance.
Totally agree that we need to pick one or the other. It's hard on pretty much everyone, but more so for people like me who go off their internal clock. Like Sunday morning, after the time change, when I woke up at my "usual" time - 3:30 old time, 2:30 new time - therefore losing an hour of sleep. I don't care which one we choose, just pick one and go with it.
The time zone change is a stretch however. Way too complicated for our high tech, business focused world. Better to stick with one big change (DST or Standard time)
UTC is too good of an idea to work. It means people will have to think for themselves as to when to get up in the morning. School boards will have to think for themselves as to when to start school. Businesses will have to think for themselves as to when to open in the morning. Sheep have no issue with rising with the sun but this is too difficult for sheeple.
Time itself is an arbitrary human construct and isn't "natural". Moreover, the need to synchronize "time" is arbitrary. It made more sense in the industrial age when shifts of manual labor needed to be at the same place to start work. It makes less sense now in a digital era when collective effort need not necessarily be synchronized. But while getting away from clocks altogether is still a long way off, we can and should break these arbitrary paradigms where we can. Each human on the planet has an optimal cycle for sleep, bodily functions, eating, working, thinking and play - and these change with the seasons, sunlight, moon phases - and gradually throughout our lives. Yet we dictate "when" things happen based on an arbitrary "clock" that tells us when it's okay to do whatever. Nothing else in nature works this way - just humans.
Thank you for this article. I would like to know just who benefits now from keeping DST. Since inception, the number of days/months that DST takes has increased. Who benefitted from the increase? The entire notion of DST reeks of human manipulation and it's insulting, yet typical. The concept that humans know better than the solar system [on which the calendar is based] is credit to human arrogance.
Totally agree that we need to pick one or the other. It's hard on pretty much everyone, but more so for people like me who go off their internal clock. Like Sunday morning, after the time change, when I woke up at my "usual" time - 3:30 old time, 2:30 new time - therefore losing an hour of sleep. I don't care which one we choose, just pick one and go with it.
The time zone change is a stretch however. Way too complicated for our high tech, business focused world. Better to stick with one big change (DST or Standard time)
UTC is too good of an idea to work. It means people will have to think for themselves as to when to get up in the morning. School boards will have to think for themselves as to when to start school. Businesses will have to think for themselves as to when to open in the morning. Sheep have no issue with rising with the sun but this is too difficult for sheeple.
Time itself is an arbitrary human construct and isn't "natural". Moreover, the need to synchronize "time" is arbitrary. It made more sense in the industrial age when shifts of manual labor needed to be at the same place to start work. It makes less sense now in a digital era when collective effort need not necessarily be synchronized. But while getting away from clocks altogether is still a long way off, we can and should break these arbitrary paradigms where we can. Each human on the planet has an optimal cycle for sleep, bodily functions, eating, working, thinking and play - and these change with the seasons, sunlight, moon phases - and gradually throughout our lives. Yet we dictate "when" things happen based on an arbitrary "clock" that tells us when it's okay to do whatever. Nothing else in nature works this way - just humans.