Daylight Savings

So this morning we set our clocks back an hour. Well, OK. My phone automatically set itself back, as did all my computers. All these other clocks in the house are now officially one hour off. I suppose I’ll get around to changing them eventually.

I’ve never fully understood the point of the time change. I suppose I could research it, but I’m feeling lazy. It gives us more daylight in the morning, which I guess is nice, but then it gets dark so darn early that it’s impossible to accomplish anything in the evening. And in those darkest months of winter, it doesn’t make any difference at all, because it’s dark when I drive to work and it’s dark when I drive home. It’s just dark all the time.

I’m one of those people whose awake-ness is directly related to the amount of light outside. Actually, most of us are that way, it’s a natural way to be. Just some are better at fighting the natural urge to sleep once it’s dark than others. Once it’s dark, I just want to be in bed. Makes it hard when you’ve got class preparations to do for the next day. Winter is awful because of this. I can’t get anything accomplished. The time change doesn’t make any difference in this regard. It just gives me a temporary jet lag that lasts for a week.

The only nice thing is that one day a year we seem to get an extra hour to sleep. I took advantage of that this morning. I needed to. I’m feeling a little rough this morning. Of course, in the spring we lose that hour. That day sucks. I hate that day, and the whole week that follows.

That is my rant. Have a nice day.