Daylight Savings Time

     Like most people, I am not a big fan of Daylight Savings Time.  It seems that it would be preferable to just do without the disruptive and accident causing twice yearly time changes, and just stay on the same time all year.  

    There have been many proposals to do this, however politics always seem to get in the way of actually doing it.  A couple of years ago the BC Government passed a law to do it, but to do it when the US did it, because we wanted to stay on the same time as Washington, Oregon, and California,  although they would like to do it also, they can’t until the Federal Government passes a law, and thus far they haven’t.

    It disturbs me that they all want to stay on year-round Daylight Saving Time.  I would rather stay year round on Standard Time.  Up here we get more than enough daylight in the summer evenings (and also mornings).  I read once that it was the Golfing Industry that keeps lobbying for year round Daylight Savings Time, so that people can play golf in all that daylight after work. 

    The yearly time changes are especially hard on pets.  They just can’t figure out why suddenly their schedules have changed and they have to wait an extra hour to eat or go on walks, or have suddenly have to wake up and hour earlier and have everything else that they do happen an hour earlier.

    Supposedly the switch to Daylight Savings Time “saves energy”.  I think that is BS.  I have never seen any proof that it does.  Let’s get rid of it.

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