Spring Forward - Fall Back
Day Light Savings Time is horrible on so many levels. Most of the world doesn’t copy us in our bi-annual American tradition. Every year the news stories tell us our politicians are trying to end it yet it never comes to pass. It is a relic of trying to save energy during a World War. The spring forward, fall back torture continues year after year forcing us to change clocks and deal with interrupted circadian rhythms. It means I drive home in the dark. In Alaska growing up it was worse. In the dark of winter you only had 6 hours of daylight and changing the clocks meant decreasing the daylight window on both ends. As a child I lived in dark. I went to school in the dark. I came home in the dark. I might catch a glimpse of the sun through a school window if I was lucky. Summers were the only respite when we lived on the excess light. These past few years have revealed what is likely the most diabolically evil reality of daylight savings that has proved to be