Stop hoarding daylight, it’s time to live in the darkness
Hey everyone! It’s that time again; time for me to go to sleep one night and hope to god my cellphone knows what exactly fall back/spring forward means in the morning. I always get confused whether or not I get an extra hour of sleep (drinking) or one less (cursing the sky). Luckily for me cellphone alarm clocks are the most advanced clocks in the world as they are programmed to adjust for DST automatically.
As you should be able to guess, daylight savings time is coming for us yet again; it is predicted that it will occur this Sunday around 2 AM – consider yourself warned.
- Photo Courtesy of judepics
The history of daylight savings day :
Daylight savings time has existed in some form or another for over 2000 years. The modern format of an hour just disappearing in the middle of the night (and me showing to work an hour early wondering if a disaster has claimed the lives of all my coworkers) has only been around for a little over 100 years. There are many reasons why daylight savings time may have started – one such story describes an annoyed William Willet observing his fellow Londoners sleeping the day away. I too observe too many of my cohorts sleeping the day away; alas, in order to correct their slumber the daylight hours would have to be adjusted about 5-7 hours forward.
Why daylight savings is good :
Generally speaking – during the Spring and Summer months daylight savings increases productivity as well as enables people to be more active and lead healthier lives. Unless you live in Arizona or Hawaii. If you are living in Hawaii you live on ‘island time ‘ and probably don’t even know what season it is let alone if it is 5 o’clock or 6 o’clock in the morning. Arizona however is another story. Arizona boasts one of the only people alive since before time existed as it’s Senator – and thus has been slow to accept the relatively modern idea of switching their clocks for no good reason. To this day I don’t know if there is any way to tell exactly what time it is in Arizona.
Why daylight savings time is bad:
When daylight savings time was first put into effect I can only imagine that all hell broke loose. That being said, we’ve all come to terms with the idea since then. I have no counter argument for daylight savings time, other than the fact that simps like me have a really hard time wrapping their mind around the concept and always get confused exactly what ‘falling back’ or ’springing forward’ means (so do I go forward in time? Or does time go forward and I stay in the same place? It gets really meta and existential if i think about it too long). Perhaps one solution for the problem of the intangible essence of time shifting is to just sound some sort of really loud alarm clock at 7 AM combined with over-saturation of the media warning us that the sun will be rising a little bit later than usual (I’m trying to do my part right now).
Say good-bye to the tans you worked oh so hard to get over the Summer, box up all your sunglasses and shed a single tear, for this Sunday we say goodbye to the Sun. I pray to Zeus that it comes back next Spring and is bigger and better than ever (besides the fact that we could benefit from it being a little cooler than it has been as of late).
-Ben
October 31st, 2009 at 3:58 am
Wow, you are a lot funnier than originally thought. Very nice.
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Awww, thanks Nettle! I try not to let on that I’m funny till you get to know me a little better – that way it’s like you earned it.
-Ben
November 6th, 2009 at 5:54 am
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