Daylight savings time
I hate daylight savings time (i.e. annual legislated jetlag). I woke up this morning an hour earlier then usual. I was sluggish and unfocused. Only an unusually large cup of coffee saved me and tomorrow will be the same. I am going to be up much later tonight than I want to be as well. It usually takes me about a week to adjust to daylight savings time, sometimes even longer. Secretly, I think I feel the after effects all summer long – it is a painful weight that drags me down (I even suffer from post-daylight savings anxiety after returning from trips to other time zones). I never fully get to normal until we finally set our clocks back in October.
Obviously, daylight savings time is a corporate scam – a tool of the man – supported by big business, and particularly the coffee lobby, to keep the rest of us off-kilter and in coffee shops, blinded and disoriented, purchasing caffeine and no-doze while the MAN (probably still on standard time) messes with our lives.
There is of course, a Jewish solution, a subversive way to steer clear of the oppressive, manipulative thumb of the MAN (I tried this one year and it worked wonders): Structure your year around the cycle of the sun. If you always get up 30 minutes before sunrise, you will never be caught off guard, you will always be productive, and the MAN will have no way to distract you and sucker you into his coffee shops and drug stores.
April 2nd, 2006 General, Time Travel
5 Comments Add your own
1. Ross Peizer | April 2nd, 2006 at 11:43 pm
I also hate daylight savings time. It totally messed up my day and it caused me to sleep through my radio show. Ok maybe all the beer and shots I had with Leo the night before had a little something to do with it too. I’m gonna get a bunch of ppl to sign up for the Israel trip tom. cya Tuesday.
-Ross
2. Michael Y. Kopinsky | April 3rd, 2006 at 12:55 am
What’s wrong with Daylight savings time? It makes my life so much easier. Now I have until 9:30 to say Krias Shma instead of 8:30! In fact, I’m in favor of year-round daylight savings time. No more 4:00 shabboses!
3. Tzvi | April 3rd, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Ross - I wouldn’t blame the beer, it is definitely the time change. Most healthy people can handle a few beers and still make it to work the next day.
I have to add - it is now almost Tuesday and I am still very messed up. Getting out of bed has been a real challenge and it takes my all to get to shul in the morning. And I needed another major coffee jolt to get the day going. Sorry Michael but I have to disagree, the only real Jewish solution is for us to create a naitz minyan and then follow the advice I stated above.
4. Michael Y. Kopinsky | April 7th, 2006 at 10:49 am
If you have a neitz minyan, you just have constant daylight savings changes. You can never have any kind of routine of when you wake up in the morning!
5. Ruth Gluckin | May 8th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
I love this article.
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