Daylight Savings Time

Spring forward, daylight savings time begins this coming Sunday morning at 2 a.m. Why? The big question, do we need DST?

You’ve heard the pro reasons, suppose to save on fuel, more daylight during the summer months. Here’s the 411, it takes most of us weeks to get our biological clocks back on track and it is only an hour of lost sleep, Then there is the added challenge of changing clocks and digital watches. Thank goodness our computers and cellphones are so smart and can change their own clocks.

Other cons, more heart attacks happen on the Monday following the start of DST in March and October and it is attributed to losing or gaining just that one hour of sleep. We experience a mini-jet lag without leaving home. Scientist say DST causes the human circadian rhyme to be thrown out of whack. What to do?

Arizona and Hawaii do not have daylight savings time. How did they escape the wrath of DST? Write your congressman, start a petition, put a sign in your yard that reads, “Keep your stinking hands off my circadian rhyme clock”. Neighbors will, at the very least, think you have a large vocabulary.

And finally we all know if we lose an hour some where we are not going to get it back unless we drive over to Alabama and catch it. This idea makes as much sense as DST.