I don’t know about you, but I hate daylight saving time. I don’t know anyone who likes it. Maybe those people who play golf, tennis or their parents of kid’s sports do, but I don’t indulge in any of those things. I talk to a lot of people because I am a publishing consultant, writer, agent, panelist at conventions, lecturer, reviewer and I work in market research and do demos in stores all over the place. With all those hats I wear, I come in contact with thousands of the populace on a regular basis and not one of them has ever said they like it.
Further more I’m not sure what we are saving. I was perfectly content with the no daylight saving time that I grew up with. It came into being in my life with the government while Richard Nixon was President of the United States and was put into full swing in the nineteen seventies with the energy crisis to help rising gas prices and a lot of other hoopla politicians are known for. Well I’ve got news for those men and women on Capital Hill, the gas prices are climbing everyday under this energy crisis to new levels and I still do not see anything that has been saved by changing the time.
I ask you the general public, what are we saving? We lose 60 minutes because we move our clocks forward one hour. We have lost that sleep time and it takes at least two to three weeks to accommodate to the time change and it runs until sometime in October and starts in March (which used to be April) and it keeps changing.
Why do we have to wait that long? What’s wrong with keeping it one time all year long? Politicians say there is a benefit. I fail to see where. What it shows is that we the people of this great land have no voice because if we did it would not continue to be thrust upon us.
