Daylight Savings Time (DST).    To bring you up to speed…… DST is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour.  We do this so that light is extended in the evening hours.  And as such…. it sacrifices normal sunrise times.

Typically, we users of DST adjust clocks forward one hour near the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn to “normal” or regular time.   You know the drill….. Spring Forward.   Fall Back.

So.  Yes, we fell back on hour over the past weekend in observance of the good old DST.   But I ask you this.   Why on God’s green earth are we still observing this unnecessary practice?  This is worse than Columbus Day.

It has been around a long time.  Too long, in my estimation.  The New Zealander George Vernon Hudson proposed the modern idea of daylight saving in 1895.   For one, I just think he was some kind of a practical joker.

The U.S. adopted this practice in hopes of conserving energy.

But I have not cared for DST for a very long time.  And I’ll tell you how long.

I have my first memory of it when I was probably six or seven.  I was learning to tell time…..  probably there-abouts.  Anyway, I would follow my Dad around the house, and “help” change all the clocks.  And we had a TON of clocks.   He didn’t grumble or complain.  Dad never, ever grumbled or complained about anything.

I remember specifically asking him why we had to do this.  And his answer was pretty comprehensive, explaining the whole rigmarole behind it.  Then, at the very end he shook his head and said… “But it just doesn’t make any sense to do it.”

Well.  That was like reading the stone tablets.  If it didn’t make sense to my Dad, then who the heck could it possibly make sense to?  He was the smartest man on the planet, for crying out loud.

And now…. as an adult, I have “read” the pros and cons.  But the main reason we are “supposed” to be following this asinine practice is to conserve energy.  Yet, every study I have come across…. has proven the opposite effect.  We use slightly more energy as a result of Daylight Savings Time.

We should just stop this nonsense…. for a number of different reason.  But,  the two most important reasons are as follows.
1.  It is a pain in the butt.
2.  It is a ROYAL pain in the butt.

Nevertheless, as you continue to find the rogue clock or wristwatch that missed the turn-back…. and you freak out up and down… because you are an hour late for an important meeting…   say a BIG FAT thank you to George Vernon Hudson.   He also invented the Whoopee Cushion and Fake Dog Poop.

For now, we can’t change Daylight Savings Time.  But we can change other things.
So……  In the words of my Grandma Kronenberger…. “Go Vote.”  Today.