Daylight Saving Time Disadvantage

Let's Abolish Daylight Saving Time

The reason we have Daylight Saving Time is because Congress has not passed a bill to abolish this terrible idea that simply makes us more stressed and less competitive. Like virtually all progressive ideas, Daylight Saving Time has never really worked. It's not about the farmers and you're not saving energy or the planet.

Ben Franklin did not invent Daylight Saving Time. No, "savings" is not plural. In the southern hemisphere, the rule is the opposite of Spring one hour back and Fall one hour forward. At this point, the reason Daylight Saving Time exists after decades of proven harm is either complete apathy or deliberate disruption by politicians to keep the public subdued.

How Is This Still A Thing?

No one in the world can tell you why it's still a thing. What you lose in sleep, you gain in mortal danger OR vice-versa. Even the Germans now think this is nonsense. If it doesn't improve our health or save energy, then why are we doing it? By the way, no cows, farmers, or John Oliver were harmed during this video.

Daylight Savings By The Numbers

If you're interrupted for one minute at work, it generally takes you 15 minutes to focus back on your original task and most people get distracted on something else and never finish what they started. If it takes the same 15x for every American to adjust to only 1 hour of sleep disruption, that's 900 hours before you become reacclimated - by then it's time to change the clocks again.

Computers and related devices have never handled Daylight Savings Time well. You often have to manually set the correct time. Security certificates or login timers often fail and lockout systems during Daylight Saving. Much like the dreaded Y2K, many applications mysteriously just stop functioning.

Contact Your Congressmen to Abolish Daylight Savings

This is a common sense issue and doesn't have anything to do with political beliefs. At Congress.gov, you can call, write, e-mail, and even Tweet your local senators or representatives. I'd like to say that by the next time Daylight Savings Time rolls around, this will just be an amusing historic relic. Unfortunately, it may just be a repeat reminder if we all don't think through this problem together.

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