Where Did 3am Go?

It's that time of year again, when an hour is stolen.  We only just started getting light in the evening and now we have to jump forward an hour.  The equinox hasn't happened yet, so there's still more hours of darkness than of light.  Daylight Saving Time doesn't save anything.  That lost 3am could be put to better use, like sleeping.  We're getting shorted.  It's time for Daylight Saving Time to be tossed on the rubbish bin of bad ideas.

Happy Increased Risk of Heart Attack and Fatal Collision Week 2018

Like clockwork, people are placed at increased risk and why?  Because no one wants to examine why Daylight Saving Time exists still.  Saskatchewan doesn't bother with the change and it survives.  The worst part?  Daylight Saving Time starts this year a week and a half before the vernal equinox and last six weeks past the autumnal.  There is no daylight to save yet.  In October, the mornings get darker far sooner than needed.  If the loss of an hour is meant to be a benefit, why isn't it benefiting the people who have to adjust?

Daylight Saving is an outdated artefact.  It's not needed.  Time for it to go.  Bring back the lost hour!

Daylight Savings Time, or Everyone Have a Free Heart Attack

Once again, Daylight Savings Time returns.  A cruel theft of an hour of sleep when sleep deprivation is already a problem.  The loss of the hour causes a number of health issues, including an increase in the risk of a heart attack in the first two days after the time shift.  That risk decreases the same time after returning to Standard Time.  We have high school students not getting enough sleep as it is.  Drivers are affected; the number of fatalities on the road increases after the switch to Daylight Savings.  The switch back again lowers.

If the health risks weren't enough, the switch is happening two weeks before the amount of daylight hours is greater than the hours of darkness.  The vernal equinox is March 21; it's March 8, thirteen days before.  The switch remain in effect until after October 31st, six weeks after the autumnal equinox.  The switch just isn't made with people in mind.  Waking up in darkness, as in winter, isn't a sign of being a good person.  Waking up early isn't necessarily a good thing.  There are people who work better later into the night, and this switch causes too many problems for them.

In short, ban Daylight Savings Time.  It's time has gone.