Daylight Savings Time

So, it's daylight savings time, again. I was just getting use to the extra hour of sleep, now it's time to take it away. Woe is me. If you haven't figured it out yet, I dislike daylight savings time. Maybe it's not so much daylight savings time but just the fact that twice a year I have to change my internal clock as well as my watch. Here's an excerpt from a great article on daylight savings time from National Geographic.

"Each U.S. state and territory is free to ignore daylight savings time, so residents of Arizona (except those on the Navajo Nation), Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other territories won't move their clocks this weekend.

If these exceptions seem confusing, the situation was far worse 50 years ago, according to Tufts University professor Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time. Before the U.S. Uniform Time Act of 1966, DST was often observed very locally—and chaos was the result.

"In 1965 there were 130 cities in the country with populations of 100,000 or more," Downing explained. "Fifty-nine did not observe daylight saving.

"Of the 71 that did, there were at least 20 different adoption dates. In Minnesota, St. Paul was on one time, Minneapolis was on a different time, and Duluth was on Wisconsin time. In fact, somebody even found a Minneapolis office building in which the different floors of the building were observing different time zones because they were the offices of different counties."

As discombobulating as daylight savings time can be now, it was much worse before 1966. I can't imagine what kind of chaos ensued as a result of not having a uniformed time. I guess I can't really complain because it's much better now but I still would like for it to stay one way or the other, preferably the falling back time portion lol. 

What would you prefer?

Happy reading,

Andrea