#968 Losing an hour of sleep during Daylight Saving Time

It's so awesome when you get to sleep a full hour more because time is turned back an hour overnight. It's so not awesome when time jumps forward and you lose a full hour of quality sleep. Is gaining that hour of sleep in the Fall worth losing that hour in the Spring? You may think differently, but I say nay. Let's take a minute to think about how stupid the invention of Daylight Saving Time is.

(This is space that should be used for thinking.)

If we never had invented this, it would just be accepted that it gets darker at a different time. Instead, time switches on us overnight and we wake up slightly annoyed on the (randomly) selected day in Spring. How can things be any more annoying? Oh wait, here's an idea. Let's make sure it's not standardized across the globe and even within countries. Check out this map, courtesy of wikipedia (which, by the way, has an unbelievably extensive page here on Daylight Saving Time, or as you kids call it, "DST").

     DST observed      DST no longer observed      DST never observed 

You stay strong orange and red.

It's just slightly annoying.