* It is utter chaos for people who are traveling during this time and you would think that the travel industry would do whatever they could to stop this flipping back and forth twice a year causing this chaos...BUT (and this made me laugh) guess who is in charge of enforcing this? None other than.....(wait for it).... The Department of Transportation!!! True, look it up!
* What is this doing to our internal time clocks? Studies have found that in the days following the Daylight Savings Time (DST) shift, there's a spike in heart attacks, suicides, automobile accidents, and work-related injuries. It is like having a bizarre jet lag without going anywhere!
*For those who have kids, you can’t get them to bed till the sun goes down, (here in the summer it doesn’t get dark till 10:00 or later) so that means you have to stay up later to get some sanity back after the kids are in bed and you can relax. If you have to get up early to go to work, well, you’re fat out of luck on getting your own “chill and relax self-care time” (unless you lock the kids in their room in a padded cell where they can’t get hurt, OR sedate them. I remember those days well, and I still have P.T.S.D. from it!)
*There is a “theory” that it saves energy, but it is actually more about commerce. More daylight hours to shop means more $ being spent, which means banks are getting more revenue pumping through them. If you add the “sleep deprived parents” to the list, then more $ on drugs and coffee to keep these poor souls' engines going every day!
*When did all this madness start? DST was first “tested out” in 1918 and then revisited in “War Time” in February 1942 and lasted until the end of September 1945. In 1966, the Uniform Time Act regulated a yearly time change which begin the last Sunday in April and end the last Sunday in October. Then during the 1973 oil embargo... and then they changed it again from 1987 through 2006, when DST started the first weekend in April, running through the last weekend in October. In 2007, it shifted again. George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which extended the annual duration of DST by 3-4 weeks! That year, it began on the second Sunday in March and it ended on the first Sunday in November. (Maybe if they keep this up, making the winter days or "standard time" less and less, it will meet itself and cancel itself out -0- once and for all! ;o)
*I have an idea and it is NOT rocket science! How about we have “summer and winter hours” for shops (which many of them already have) and also other things like schools? That way NO ONE’S internal clock get buggered up, and these places have the option to do whatever is best for them...it is “their choice.” (Choice, what a concept eah?)