So it only took 40 years to discover but apparently Daylight Savings is a bust. The clock-changing effort to save energy, well, doesn't. Instead it's causing Americans to use more energy and therefore pay more for that energy use. Good idea, Mr. Franklin.
Here's a thought: perhaps, just perhaps, we shouldn't focus huge time-altering efforts on the thoughts of a man whose lighting system functioned around candles and wax.
DST is pretty much wretched--all the way down to its name: Day-Light-Savings. The very idea is impossible for, as it turns out, we as people do not control the amount of sunlight given off by (get this) the sun in any given day. We are just a bunch of parasites that live off of it but have no control over it. We don't save daylight---though, the title is convenient for our over-indulgent self-perspectives. (I did it! I saved the daylight! You're welcome, Little People. Worship me like you worship the sun because I control the sun.) Shockingly, the sun rises when it rises and sets when it sets because of the axis tilt, rotation, and revolution of the earth in relation to the sun. Crazy. The season of summer allows for more sunlight automatically. All we did was call it summer. Ta da!
I do understand the hesitancy to give up the whole DST practice, though. I mean, who would want to have to stop saying, "Spring forward; fall back?" It's a very catchy phrase. And very catchy phrases should not be eradicated just because they cost billions of dollars in unnecessary energy use. They're very catchy.
2 comments:
ugh. of all nights to pull an allnighter, i chose saturday night! so i got home at 4am and changed the clocks to 5am, then went to sleep. horrible, huh.
you are so wise... let's revolt. we'll tell people we're not late, they're just early....
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