Daylight Misery Time

[clarentine]

If I was the sort to see conspiracies everywhere, I would be inclined to see one in our government's insistence that we "gain" an hour upon the institution of Daylight Savings Time - that hour "gained" at the end of the day at the expense of morning daylight, at a significant increase in costs (per a study recently spotlighted on NPR) for lighting and heat. Furthermore, I would be inclined to suspect that the "savings" were instituted deliberately to increase the disconnect between our body's rhythms and the natural patterns of the environment, against which we need to be matching ourselves more now, rather than less.

Perhaps we would be more aware of what we are doing if we didn't spend two thirds of a year out of sync with the world we live on.

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[ter369.livejournal.com]

I think one original idea in DST was for kids to be able to go to school and then have time to "work" in the evening, either in rural situations or with whatever business their parents had. That is now so out of date for the majority of the western world. The time changes in Europe, too, but not always on the same weekend as North America. I found out the hard way, by being abroad and not knowing.

Yes, we are out of sync with the natural world. A good rallying cry for changing the time changes.

[clarentine]

Oh no! I thought that this ridiculous time change thing was a peculiarly American idiocy. For it to be elsewhere makes it that much harder to eradicate. Bah!

[ter369.livejournal.com]

For it to be elsewhere makes it that much harder to eradicate. Bah!

Unless Al Gore gets behind it.

[clarentine]

It must be amazing - and freeing - to have more clout as a result of not</> getting elected to the presidency.

[clarentine]

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of not getting elected to the presidency.