Ranting and Raving...It's About Time.

Daylight Savings Time begins this weekend, which means we will be turning our clocks ahead an hour. Which means everyone will be tired and cranky on Sunday. Sounds like a good time! Can’t wait.

Daylight Savings Time was moved ahead three weeks and extended a week this year due to a Conservation Bill that was signed last year hoping to decrease individual energy use. Was this a good idea? I am still undecided. Here are my thoughts, if you care.

1. I am not a morning person. Ask anyone that has had the pleasure of talking to me before 10am. Daylight Savings Time is just a scam way to get you get up earlier. So if you would normally be getting up at 8…ha ha…Daylight Savings Time comes in a really gets you up at 7, but lies to you and pretends it is 8.

2. Because of the change in when Daylight Savings Time is occurring, everyone is confused. Somehow, I always liked President Monson making the announcements to change our clocks at General Conference. Sadly, neither Daylight Savings Time nor Daylight Saving Time Ends coincides with Conference. There will be no need for that announcement this year. Now I just have to remember on my own when to change my clock.

3. An article I read this morning compared this change to Y2K (biggest let down of my life!) wherein, none of the computers know about this willy nilly change to our clocks. And that these devises are programmed to change for Daylight Savings Time in three weeks. Does that mean come three weeks, we will be two hours ahead?

4. I am a Socialist. But sadly, and much to the dismay of my Captain Planet friends I am not an environmentalist. (Thanks Ms. McGuire for wrecking recycling forever.) Do I really care about conserving energy? Is it worth changing my whole body clock so that I will not turn on my lights until an hour later?

So in conclusion, Daylight Savings Time, may or may not be the meanest trick out there. If you chose to not observe this change, you will be late for everything and will probably lose all your friends and your job. Moneyless and alone. But at least you will be getting off work an hour earlier!

Good Luck to all of us! Don’t worry, by next Friday, you will forget it even occurred.

Lots of love.