Daylight Savings Time, The Forty-Fourth Week in the Second Year of the New Abnormal

I voted early yesterday. I like my councilwoman and I wanted to keep her in office. What I don’t get to vote for is the abolishment of daylight savings time. We turned the clocks back last night, and ostensibly we got an extra hour of sleep. Then in April we “spring” ahead losing that hour. I say, no thank you.

As a child, I was delighted to stay in my pajamas longer on a crisp Autumn Sunday. Now, it feels like a game I’m playing that I never agreed to participate in. I accept the inevitability of daylight savings time along with other events not of my choosing.

I believe Daylight Savings Time or “DST” began in 1908 in Thunder Bay, Canada, a northern bay town of Lake Superior. It was decided that DST would help to take advantage of the daylight while also conserving energy. Then two years into WWI the Germans and Austrians instituted DST and it became an international trend. And, though not a trend in all countries, it is observed by over…