I absolutely LOVE DST. *ducks to dodge flying objects*

I hate the time change, however (for many reasons, including what it does to the dogs’ internal clocks and mine), and I wish we had DST all year round. I get to work early, so for me, I prefer to have those extra hours of daylight in the evening to play with the dog, to get things done, etc. I am insanely more productive during DST. I’m still getting up and going to work in the dark no matter what, it feels, so give me the sun when I can most enjoy it! I hate nothing worse than leaving the office in the evening and it already starting to get dark and then taking my daily evening walk with Tavish in full darkness.

So I don’t like daylight savings at all 🙁

My thought is, they should move it back 1/2 hour instead of an hour, and then leave it alone. For good.

Thanks for the info, Mike. I was pretty sure that was the case but I’m so disoriented from lack of sleep that I just wasn’t sure. 😉

Actually, the real reason I wasn’t sure is because everyone around me keeps saying they *hate* falling back in the winter so I figured I had to be the messed up one who lives for the thrill of pushing those clock hands around in the fall. They keep saying something about losing an extra hour of daylight and I can’t for the life of me figure out what they’re talking about – it’s winter, the days are shorter, it has nothing to do with what time is says on your watch.

FTR, I agree with Lori – you need your own blog. You’re an entertaining writer in your own right. 🙂

From the Husband:

Leslie, the “real” time, i.e., the time that most of the world uses most of the time, is based on the time zones established by global convention as marching out from the International Date Line. In the continental U.S. (the lower 48 states, excluding Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. territories), the “real” times are, moving from east to west, Eastern Time, Central Time, Mountain Time and Pacific Time.

“Daylight Savings Time” is the period in much of the U.S. in which all these times get shifted one hour. I still don’t know why Ben Franklin first thought this was a good idea, but at its core, it must have involved a fundamentally perverse idea that what appeared on a clock face should somehow be more important for workers’ daily routines than what appeared in the sky.

In any case, here in autumn, we are, indeed, just about to reinvest ourselves in the rest of the world’s reality. It is in the spring that we take our strange step into Aberrational Time.