I Don't Like Daylight Saving Time

I don’t like daylight saving time.

I’m a morning person and each year just when the daylight hours are starting to get longer and the sun is starting to come up about the same time I get up in the mornings, Uncle has to go and move the clocks ahead an hour. So now I’m back to getting up in the dark again. What’s with that?

I don’t have little children to wake up in the dark and put on a school bus, but millions of people do. Putting a child on a school bus is bad enough, but doing it before dawn is just wrong.

The only thing I do like about daylight saving time is falling back to standard time at the other end of the calendar. It’s tough to go to bed early when it’s still light outside, and in mid summer when it’s light until past my bedtime, it’s not so easy to get to sleep. Back on standard time, it’s dark at a decent hour again.

Didn’t Ben Franklin say, “Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise”? I like to think of Ben as an inventor, but when he thought up daylight saving time, he was behaving more like a politician.

God invented time, including sunup and sunset, and I liked it much better His way.