My Last Rant on Daylight Savings Time at least until spring

6:20 a.m., Monday, 8 Nov 2010 - Venus rising above the
largest tree on the horizon.

Can you tell the sky is important to us here in the flyover part of the country?  It is everywhere and we comment on it frequently.


This will be my last rant on changing time at least until spring.  Here is my initial rant.


So how are you all feeling today?  I've learned that it doesn't matter if we fall back one hour or spring forward an hour, it takes at least a week to adjust.  And to those of you with babies and young children, I know it's especially rough on you and them.  


My normal wake-up time is 5 a.m.  I was awake at 4 a.m.  My eyes are hard to keep open after 9 p.m. -- now they are trying to shut by 8 p.m.  I tell you, I'm a barrel of laughs!


I heard a story the other day on NPR's Saturday Weekend Edition with Scott Simon about Great Britain's discussing perhaps leaping forward two hours in the summer and falling back one hour -- here's the link to the story --  Time change and Great Britain -- and the person interviewed gave the same ridiculous reasons that were given to the American public about why messing with the clock is so wonderful.  It isn't wonderful.  If anything can throw a population off kilter, it's messing with the clock.


Here's another story that NPR did in 2005 about the history of the time change. NPR story on daylight savings time   It's enlightening and interesting as all things are on NPR, but I still don't like time changes.


So, I think that does it.  No more ranting about time change.  I shall move on to something else.  Thank you.