My proposal for saving more daylight [View all]

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Y'know, every year we try to save some daylight by setting the clock back an hour every fall and setting it forward every spring.

When I was growing up, this confused me because nobody would tell me how to redeem any of the daylight I'd saved.

By the time I became a teenager, I'm afraid I'd become quite cynical and even suspected the whole thing was a gigantic scam: they pretend to give you an extra hour of daylight and then they make you give it back, so how are you saving any?

But as I got older, I decided if I can't beat them I should join them; and I've given lots and lots of thought to this. I thought: if we can save daylight by switching the clock around, why not fall back an hour and fifteen minutes in the fall and then spring forward an hour and fifteen minutes in the spring? That would save another fifteen minutes of daylight! Well, some people are pretty conservative, and they thought of all kinds of excuses for why that wasn't a convenient idea, so I thought some more, and now I think I have a plan that more people will like.

My plan is this: Daylight saving time should begin at 2AM on the second Friday of March, and we add 24 hours to the clocks, so it suddenly becomes 2AM on Saturday; then at 2AM on the first Sunday of November, we subtract 24 hours from the clocks, so it suddenly becomes 2AM on Saturday again.

This gives us an extra Saturday every year.