“To every thing there is a season, and a time to” adjust the clocks-- RANT

November 6, 2021— End of Daylight Savings time (for now). As part of the growing number of people who would like to remain on a continuous time cycle years-round, I welcome the return to Standard time. Unlike a growing number of people who would like to remain in Daylight Savings Time all year round, I prefer Standard Time.

It’s called Standard Time for a reason: one being that it is an international agreement on a shared time reference. A shared international reference of any kind is a welcome rarity these days. Another point in favor of Standard time is that we are set up (legally) to remain there if we choose (as does Arizona and Alaska already). Each state just has to say they would like to remain there and not switch to Daylight Savings Time. To make DST the new standard would require all states to agree on that—See much chance of that happening? If such a miracle of consensus did take place, then the United States would be at odds with the rest of the world- declaring that our perspective on time itself was now the standard. Yet another opportunity to clearly demonstrate our commitment to free speech and the right to do as we please.

Despite the wistful suggestion that Daylight Savings Time somehow provides more daylight, we know that it doesn’t. It just shifts the same amount of light around. Who prefers more light at the end of a summer day at the expense of waking up to a sunrise at 8:30 on a December morning (at this latitude)? That’s Daylight Savings time. Or we could be satisfied with a lingering twilight in the summer at 8:15 PM or so and wake up to a morning light already in progress (A Standard Time scenario).

Anyway—remember to turn the clocks back before going to bed this evening—See you in the morning!