Nov
2010
Daylight Savings Time 2010
Last night, if you all remembered, you moved your clocks back one hour for standard time. For the next 128 days (March 14, 2011) we are stuck with an outdated system of time that was based around helping farmers out. For some insane reason people, namely the government, keeps this insane system going when there is absolutely no need for it to even exist. It sure would be nice if they joined the rest of us in the 21st century some day.
We have reduced this time period to as little as we can while keeping it in service, which just makes you wonder harder about why we do. As I pointed out in the above linked post, it is a proven fact that traffic accidents go up during this time period because people spend more time driving in the dark.
You know what else it does? It drives up your electric bill because we turn our lights on earlier in the day. Aren’t we supposed to be cutting energy use?
Just once I would like to see someone write an explanation of why we keep this stupidity going, but that would require someone, anyone, to come up with a logical reason for it. And until this creative person comes along, we’re just stuck with it.
Come on, world, make it go away already!
Jolene | November 9th, 2010 at 8:00 pm #
About the accidents, I now drive into the evening sun and up a hill … so starting about 2 miles before this hill, evening traffic starts backing up because the ones going up said hill are blinded by the sun, so slow down. I've personally watched 2 trucks go off in the ditch because they were going too fast on the highway and almost hit people dealing with the sun. I've actually had to put the VUE on the shoulder because I forgot. Its a mess.
Sean P. Aune | November 10th, 2010 at 11:28 am #
Yep, exactly. This time change made since when we were a farming based culture, but now we are putting people's lives at risk for such a small percentage of our population that it is laughable.