Agreed, and yes, darkness at 5 is a bummer. For most, though, this only happens for a couple of winter months when people tend to stay inside out of the cold in the evenings anyway. For me, it’s tougher to convince my body it’s time to start the day when darkness makes it feel like the middle of the night.
Permanent Daylight Saving Time sounds nice until winter shows up.
Across much of America, that means kids waiting for buses in the dark, people commuting in the dark, and millions starting their day before sunrise for weeks.
Your body needs morning light to regulate sleep, mood, alertness, and health.
We already tried year-round DST in 1974. People hated the dark winter mornings.
Extra evening daylight is nice.
But forcing the whole country to wake up in the dark all winter? That’s not healthy.
Be careful what you ask for
It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered.
You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day.
This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm.
The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone.
A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time.
Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans.
We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all.
Fix the time zones and affix standard time.
It's the 20th Anniversary of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."
NONE of his scary predictions have come true.
Mt. Kilimanjaro still has snow and Glacier National Park still has glaciers.
Here's why we are not doomed: