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My Druthers




Many folks get all riled up about the switch to Daylight Savings Time and the switch back that occurred today. They get upset about it "not really saving energy" or they get upset about it "originaly being for farm hands" or they get up set that they "have too many clocks to reset". I personally like Daylight Savings Time.

If I had my druthers (which of course I do not), I would actually make it so that we reset our clocks every first day of the month so that sunset in my northern state would fall at 9:00pm. Those of you more Southern probably do not really care or notice much in terms of day length, but where I am at, for three months of the year, we get perhaps 6-7 hours of light a day.... and with the way they are positioned, it is pretty much dark when we arrive to work, and it is dark when we typically leave to go home from work.

If we were to set our clocks each month to have sunset in my region at 9:00pm, we would all be able to have some daylight. In my region it would mean that in December, it would not start to get light until around 2:00 or 2:30pm, but to me, being able to leave work in the light of day, and being able to have a few hours outside in daylight in the winter would do me a helluva lot of good. And, I think it would significantly decrease the incidnce of Seasonal Affective Disorder.

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