At 2:00 a.m. today (or before going to sleep last night for the early birds), everyone in the United States — except in Arizona and Hawaii, where the people obviously enjoy a much higher level of intelligence — had to turn their “un-smart” clocks and watches back one hour. The so-called “smart” devices did the honors themselves.

And so we all got to reclaim that hour of sleep we lost in March when we went through the reverse procedure.

Now, if by some miracle we, the people of the United States, were able to convince Congress to do away with this idiotic thing known as Daylight Saving Time, and do our bodies the favor of not having to go through this weird adjustment twice a year . . . would that mean that we would actually get to live one hour longer?

I don’t know whether that’s a valid hypothesis, but somehow it feels right. And at the very least, we wouldn’t have to give back that hour of shuteye next March.

So, all of you sleep-deprived folks out there: Who’s with me on this? The daylight hours get longer in the summertime anyway — why does it have to stay light until 9:00 p.m. or later? It’s hard to put young children to bed when it’s still bright and sunny outside. And it’s disorienting for our four-legged friends, you know. Just think of what it does to a dairy farmer’s milking schedule!

And by the way, does anyone know how Daylight Saving (not Savings) Time got started in the first place? I do . . . but I’m not telling. You can Google it, like I did.

So anyway, turn back your watches and “dumb” clocks, and within the next four months let’s see if we can get that crowd on Capitol Hill to do something useful for a change . . . or for no change (of time, that is).

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
11/3/24