Rant on.<\/p>\n
I have ranted about this before, and I am sure I will rant about it again.\u00a0 I think Daylight Savings Time is, at best, an annoying idea.\u00a0 It was questionably useful when it was first put into place, and its modern use seems counter-productive.<\/p>\n
Although I don’t think science fully understands it yet, living things all have a biological clock they run on.\u00a0 This includes people, who have the advantage of knowing<\/em> they have an internal clock.\u00a0 Changing the time of day throws this clock off.\u00a0 Some proponents of DST like to say that the shift at this time of year is good because it “gives you an extra hour of sleep.”\u00a0 Bullshit.\u00a0 My body is used to sleeping a certain number of hours.\u00a0 I am pretty sure most people are the same way, and so they either don’t sleep that extra hour or have a very restless sleep for it.<\/p>\n The night after the shift, my body thinks I have stayed up late.\u00a0 This doesn’t affect when I wake up, relatively speaking; I tend to awake at roughly the same time of day I did before.\u00a0 Except it’s not<\/em> the same time of day, it’s an hour earlier according to the clock.\u00a0 Again, I am certain I am not unique in this.\u00a0 I am pretty sure most people go through a few days like this as their biological clock adjusts to the new time frame.<\/p>\n There have been studies done, of course.\u00a0 Overall, as I see it, the advantages and disadvantages even out.\u00a0 In some places, energy consumption rises while it seems to lower in others.\u00a0 Wikipedia has a good article on it.\u00a0 Quite simply it seems like an awful lot of hassle to go through for such minimal advantages, especially with evidence pointing to some quantifiable disadvantages as well.<\/p>\n The fact is that today’s world is a twenty-four-by-seven world.\u00a0 Many businesses are open late or all night.\u00a0 People routinely work late, sometimes to the wee hours of the morning.\u00a0 Our computers stay on all day, consuming power constantly, and will do so regardless of what time of day it is.\u00a0 Shifting our timepieces around is a terrible inconvenience, and it is–no pun intended–high time we got rid of this archaic practice.<\/p>\n Rant off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rant on. I have ranted about this before, and I am sure I will rant about it again.\u00a0 I think Daylight Savings Time is, at best, an annoying idea.\u00a0 It was questionably useful when it was first put into place, and its modern use seems counter-productive. Although I don’t think science fully understands it yet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}