No More Daylight Savings Time
If you are like me and you need to get up before 7 AM, you have probably noticed that it is dark-like-night when you wake up. This is unnatural and weird.
I hate waking up in the dark, especially when it is not in the middle of winter.
Why are we still on “daylight savings time”?
This unnatural state of prolonged morning darkness is the product of Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey. Markey thinks we should get rid of standard time to save energy (daylight savings all year long).
Excuse me Mr. Markey but:
- Stupid idea
- You are ruining my mornings
Fortunately, Markey’s plan didn’t pass. Instead we got a compromise. Daylight savings time ends a week later in the fall and starts three weeks earlier in the spring (not good, but better than daylight savings time all year long).
The good news is that this weekend finally marks the end of daylight saving’s hell – life goes back to normal on Sunday.
By the way, Markey is also the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet and he is actively pushing legislation to shut down free speech and people he disagrees with on the radio.
Darkness all year and an end to free speech – next thing he’ll do is try to stop global warming and ruin my chances of turning Boston into San Diego.
Yikes.
October 31st, 2008 Time Travel
4 Comments Add your own
1. Tzvi | October 31st, 2008 at 2:35 pm
You should know too, Markey’s DST plan also really messes things up for religious Jews. If we had DST all year long, it would be impossible for most of us to pray before work.
2. Ruth | November 2nd, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Very funny! This is a great post…..I know how you feel about Daylight savings time but I have always felt that as a mum of little kids it doesn’t make any difference. They wake up and do their own thing regardless of whether I could be getting an extra hour of sleep. Like the little one we had sharing the bedroom with us last night vomiting throughout the night and sweating with a fever. Who cares about that hour? I didn’t sleep all night anyway! They do their thing! Wouldn’t have it any other way!
3. Ruth | November 6th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Daylight saving????????? The next night we had the episode with the child who woke us up in the middle of the night to relieve himself and then cried because he had dropped his yarmulka into the toilet BEFORE he had flushed and this was not a simple matter…….Gross! Then he couldn’t go back to sleep because he remembered that he hadn’t brought home his homework…which we all ready knew (at 4 o/c and now it was 1o/c in the morning!)
Then 5 hours later it was time to start the day…….which was long!
4. jessica | November 1st, 2009 at 12:24 pm
I’m not trying to make anyone angry, just curious. Why wouldn’t you be able to pray in the morning? If you are gettting up at a certain time to pray every day, why is it any different when the clocks switch? It’s still the same hour, just something the body gets used to again. Not too terribly hard if you go to sleep a tad bit early. I dont know a whole lot about the Jewish religion, but does it have something to do with a specific time kind of thing?
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