Why stop short? Add an extra hour per night every 6 weeks, then rewind the lost time in 10-minute installments every Monday afternoon. Instead of one significantly longer night, now you get eight per year, paid for by making all Mondays slightly shorter.
When I was young, in the fall switch to standard time, my dad used to wait until late in the day on Sunday to fall back--how nice it was to be able to turn 4pm into 3pm. But now with everything automatically setting itself, it's hard to pretend we're still on daylight time even for half a day.
I do think pushing the transition into November was a mistake. First, around here it cuts off an hour of trick-or-treating, which only gets going when it's dark outside. (Although I think candy manufacturers mistakenly thought that more daylight would be better for trick-or-treating and pushed for the 2005 change.) But instead of falling back when you can still have a little bit of evening light, now the transition to it's-dark-when-I'm-off-work is stark, and brings out all the people who don't see a problem with morning darkness. It is funny after the fall back when so many people claim they hate daylight savings time.
I do think that DST when there's enough morning daylight to borrow is a good thing. Fortunately, the abolish DST folks seem evenly split between those who want standard time all year and those who want daylight time all year. So that will never resolve, and we'll keep going as thing are. And the folks who complain should just admit to themselves that what they really hate is living so far from the equator.
You miss the obvious solution: Spring forward at 3pm on a Monday. Done and done.
As an IT person, for whom clock-switching is a biennial pain in the ass, this idea made me throw up in my mouth a little.
Why stop short? Add an extra hour per night every 6 weeks, then rewind the lost time in 10-minute installments every Monday afternoon. Instead of one significantly longer night, now you get eight per year, paid for by making all Mondays slightly shorter.
When I was young, in the fall switch to standard time, my dad used to wait until late in the day on Sunday to fall back--how nice it was to be able to turn 4pm into 3pm. But now with everything automatically setting itself, it's hard to pretend we're still on daylight time even for half a day.
I do think pushing the transition into November was a mistake. First, around here it cuts off an hour of trick-or-treating, which only gets going when it's dark outside. (Although I think candy manufacturers mistakenly thought that more daylight would be better for trick-or-treating and pushed for the 2005 change.) But instead of falling back when you can still have a little bit of evening light, now the transition to it's-dark-when-I'm-off-work is stark, and brings out all the people who don't see a problem with morning darkness. It is funny after the fall back when so many people claim they hate daylight savings time.
I do think that DST when there's enough morning daylight to borrow is a good thing. Fortunately, the abolish DST folks seem evenly split between those who want standard time all year and those who want daylight time all year. So that will never resolve, and we'll keep going as thing are. And the folks who complain should just admit to themselves that what they really hate is living so far from the equator.
You're not serious are you?
I was hoping that the title was a big enough hint. This is mostly a joke.