Daylight Savings Time saves no daylight at all.
March 15th, 2016
Daylight. Stealing. Time.
I don't care what they call it, they're stealing from me every time the clocks move one way or the other. My brain has a hard time adjusting to the switch, an adjustment which seems harder and harder every year. Yeah, I know, get off my lawn, blah blah blah. But the amount of energy I expend to deal with this useless garbage each year is energy that I'll never, ever get back.
Leave it to a New Zealander to invent the backwards notion of supposed Daylight Savings Time. As a species, humanity has mastered the wondrous technology known as clocks, but no matter what the clock physically says, you will have the same temporal amount of daylight. Thus, there is no point in changing the darn clock every couple of months to preserve it.
It's completely pointless. Most of the world hasn't bothered to observe Daylight Stealing Time, so why should we? I can't help but wonder who's profiting from the continued use of this ridiculous procedure. After all, it's so disruptive that there's not only no net benefit, but a distinct handicap. So someone, somewhere, has figured out how to squeeze some money out of this mess.
So I imagine we won't be seeing it go away any time soon.