Today is the first day of daylight-saving time, 2023. So, how has losing an hour of sleep benefited you? Are you any taller, thinner, or better looking? Are you still bald? Yo soy también.
Did you wake up today feeling better than you did yesterday because of the time change? Do you have more energy or stamina?
How about your standard of living? Has the time change improved the value of the dollars you work for? Are you driving a new car or living in a nicer home? Did daylight-saving time enable your wife to hire a house cleaning service? Have you been able to enroll your kids in a private school?
Has missing an hour of sleep and enduring the disruption of your circadian rhythms made you a safer driver? If you do hazardous work, has switching your sleep habits reduced your risk of a job-related injury?
Think back over previous years’ time changes. Did they improve the quality or quantity of your work? If anything, didn’t they temporarily reduce your efficiency?
Are you grumpy after the switch to daylight-saving time? Did you snap at your spouse, snarl at a coworker, yell at your kids, or put the dog out of the house? The time change is great for your disposition, isn’t it?
Tell me then, what good does daylight-saving time do that is enough to justify the disruption it causes in peoples’ lives? As far as I can see, it is just one more way that the “powers that be” can push the average guy around.
The U.S. Senate is
currently considering a bill called “The Sunshine Protection Act,” which would
abolish time changes and make daylight-saving time permanent and year-around. Some sleep experts think it would be better
to abolish daylight-saving time and only have standard time. [1] Personally, I don’t care which one they make
permanent, as long as they get rid of the time change. Since our elected representatives are finally
looking at doing what should have been obvious all along, now is a good time to
write them a note or give them a call to encourage them to put an end to the
folly of switching the time around.
