Unabashed

It is time, good people of the industrialized world. Time to roll back the clocks again, yes, but more importantly it is time to ask, no–beg–the powers that be to stop screwing with the time. Daylight Saving Time might have been really important once upon a time, but no longer. Quoting a fellow blogger in his post entitled Semi-Annual Stupidity:

Here in California’s blistering-hot backward wasteland “Imperial” Valley, what the autumnal time piece tango means is that just when the weather begins to moderate a little, the powers-that-be in Sacramento and Washington mandate that we roll-back the clocks.

Which means that it’s nearly pitch-black by 5:00 PM.

And in about six months, just when it begins to get hot again, those same powers-that-be have us “spring forward” the clocks by an hour.

Which means that its often well over a 100 degrees until nearly 9:00 PM.

I wish that California’s legislature was as smart as the people of Arizona.

In Arizona, they’re too smart to waste time fooling around with clocks.

He may be a few thousand miles away from me, but I share his sentiments exactly. Working the fields is no longer the occupation of the majority of Americans, and those who do hire the help rather than wait for the kids to get home from school to start harvesting. 5:00 is too early for sunset; 8:00 in the summer is too late. Just find a happy medium and leave it be! Next spring let’s spring ahead 30 minutes and leave it at that for good. DST has become a relic, useless in modern society, and it’s time to take our clocks back. Start the revolution!

From Wikipedia:
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written by Matt Mitchell