Maybe I don’t rub shoulders with the right people, but I can honestly say that I can’t recall ever having talked with a single person who had a word to say about our semi-annual ritual of switching our clocks to and from “Daylight Savings” time.
I understand that during one of the wars someone came up with the bright idea that we could save electricity by moving our clocks forward and backward twice a year. Although I’m not familiar with the research, I understand that concept has been disproven. But even if it hasn’t, is any small amount of savings really worth screwing up everyone’s internal and external clocks twice every year? Maybe a few golfers love it, but if they do, why not just set our clocks ahead one time and then leave them there. That way they can love it 12 months a year. Or if we want to make everybody unhappy, why not just move them ahead a half hour and keep them there.
Is Daylight Savings Time just one more example of bureaucracy gone wild, and no one has the initiative to tell the government big shots that it’s time to get out of our lives? Why are the swamp dwellers so sure they know better than we do?
Don’t you just love bureaucracy?
Truman Jacobs, Elida
