All the Ways Daylight Saving Time Screws With You
When entire countries lose an hour of sleep simultaneously, bad things happen. Gimme back my hour. Pixabay Only a narrow band of people are really that affected by daylight saving. But gosh darn it, we will complain about it loudly every year. The annual switch to daylight saving time (DST) is the hour that launched a…
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Now that I am in full retirement time is really something I don’t worry with anymore. I go to bed when I feel like it, get up when the notion strikes me, and eat when I get hungry. DST helps in one way. I can play golf a little more because its cheaper to play “twilight” golf. The green fees drop at 2 PM so you have time to play a full 18 holes before it becomes nighttime golf. Other than that, it always five o’clock somewhere, 🙂
AHA, so I can blame DST on my IVF failing all those times, causing miscarriage after miscarriage. Yay me. Also too, wasn’t this whole thing started for farmers that needed the kidlets to be out of school or some such to do farm work. We don’t have that anymore or at least right now we don’t.
That whole farmer thing is one of the theories but it’s really about the businesses that profit from extra daylight.