Daylight Savings Time

Today is the massively coordinated move to daylight savings time for most people in the US. What a bother! It’s disruptive to our already challenged biological clocks.

Some of our clocks change automatically (all the ones connected to the internet), but my husband still takes on the task of doing the ‘spring forward’ on the wall clock, an alarm clock, the stove, the microwave, etc. He leaves my car for me to do (it has two places that need to be changed!); I never changed it back to standard time last fall…so it is correct again as of today.

There seems to be more discussion of not changing clocks twice a year…but nothing happening (yet) at the Federal level and the states are limited to the option of staying on standard time according to this article published last year about this time.  There are substantial majorities in several states that would prefer staying on daylight savings time (or shifting to the time zone to the east and staying on standard time). I think that would be my preference even though staying on standard time would be by second choice. This is a case where I don’t like the status quo!