by Dorothy Jo Bourbeau

Created on: November 03, 2007

While most people around the world reset there clocks twice every year they also suffer through reseting their bodies twice a year. It really doesn't matter what you plan to do with that so called extra hour, chances are your body is going to stop you from doing it because your internal clock, whether or not you believe you have one is irrelevant, is going to resist the sudden change in your daily schedule.

As for daylight saving time actually saving daylight, measure it some time. You will most likely find that it does not matter what time the clock says, there are only so many hours of daylight. That is determined by the position of the earth in its journey around the sun and not by numbers on a clock.

Do I believe changing the clocks saves energy? Only if using electricity in the morning is cheaper than using it at night. People still have to get up and go to work or school or whatever and changing the clocks just means that instead of it being daylight when they get up it is daylight when they go to bed. Getting up in the dark means using lights which means using energy. The trouble with all the so called studies that prove daylight saving time saves energy is that they were done mostly by the people who benefit, make money, from people using energy. Studies can show anything the people doing them want them to show.

My question is Where is PETA during all of this. If you have ever been a nursing mother you know that missing a regular feeding hurt like hell. Think of all those poor cows that have there milking schedule disrupted twice a year. If the dairy farmers compensate by getting up an hour earlier to keep the cows on schedule it kind of defeats the whole purpose of daylight saving time.

People in Arizona and Hawaii don't change their clocks twice a year and their lives are as normal as anyones. I have lived in both places and aside from having to remember that the rest of the country is suddenly on a different time life continued as usual, no ill effects, no big money loss from higher energy costs. The world is not going to end any sooner in places that don't change their clocks. I think the world should pick one time setting and stick to it and forget all this nonsense about saving daylight.

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