Yes, we turned our clocks ahead yesterday to transition from standard time to daylight savings time. We lost an hour!!! This always spurs on media stories about the dangers of losing that one hour sleep, and university professors and doctors chime in about the bad effects of time change. Yawn. I am so tired of this, or is it my lack of sleep?
I personally don't care whether we change the time or not, as long as we retain daylight savings in the summer. I enjoy my long summer nights and have no desire to see them shortened. Who cares what happens at sunrise? I'm fast asleep. It seems so strange that we get the same arguments when we change our clocks back an hour. Should not the extra hour of sleep be good for everyone? You can't have it both ways. The truth is, there is a small adjustment when we change the time, but it only lasts for a day or two and is not that dramatic. I have trouble believing the horror stories that time changes cause all sorts of accidents, etc. If that were the case, travelers should be banned from driving if they enter another time zone.
If a one hour shift is so dangerous, why do we not ban shift workers being allowed to go from day shifts to night shifts? That is way more dramatic. And, no one seems concerned about the millions of travelers who cross many time zones in a short period of time and have to adjust their body clocks. We simply accept that. I used to travel for work from the west coast of Canada to Ottawa, a three hour shift in time. Being a late-nighter, there is no way I could go to bed at 11PM EST, and get my regular sleep before getting up for work the next day. It was only 8PM PST, four hours before bedtime. Would I feel unsafe driving the next day? No. However, maintaining my attention for three hour lectures was a near impossible task. Time change is inevitable, unless you never go anywhere. All the hullabaloo over a one hour change once per year seems so overblown. It is so much easier now than before. Our digital equipment, including smart watches, automatically change with the times. I used to have to change all the clocks and watches in the house.
I agree with the government that it is easier to operate when your neighbours to the south are on the same time zone. It is confusing enough in western Canada where some parts of B.C. observe pacific time while some parts near the eastern border observe mountain time. Stop all the bellyaching. Change it or don't change it and lets get on with it. Eventually we will all retire and time becomes irrelevant.
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