Daylight Saving Time Is Terrible: Here's a Simple Plan to Fix It (DST ends Sun, Nov 3)

[SheilaT]

73. Back before the Uniform Daylight Savings Act

or whatever it was called, that went into effect in 1967, DST started and stopped at a bunch of different dates and localities across the nation. It was extremely confusing.

That year, 1967, was the only year Arizona did DST. I was living there then. All it did was insure that a person working normal hours got off work into the worst of the heat of the day. Yuck.

In other places, it made for a nice, lovely, long daylit evening after work. Of course, for all those who work shift work that gets them off work at 8pm or later, it hardly matters.

I currently work 4pm to 8pm, and what I enjoy about DST is that for about two and a half months I get off work in full daylight. It's nice. By the beginning of October, even still being on DST, I get off in the dark, and it invariably feels much later than it does in July. Purely psychological, I know. But it means I pay a great deal of attention to how much daylight I have at 8pm. I really notice the first faint glimmers of fading light sometime in April.