The GG and I had a really bizarre argument last night about Daylight Savings Time. I don’t think I could begin to repeat it if I tried. Basically I am for keeping the time change. I’m not exactly sure what the GG is for. Something like making every time zone in the world the same? I could not understand it.

For a start, I did not have ANY trouble switching over to Eastern Standard Time this year. In a mechanical sense, two of the three clocks I depend on (my phone and Cygnus X-1’s) change automatically. I have to change Gertrude’s (stove) clock manually but it’s a quick clickety-click process. My alarm clock seems to be manual because it hasn’t changed yet but I don’t need an alarm clock. I don’t set an alarm and wake up well before any alarm would be needed. Other digital clocks in the house have been flashing 00:00 for years.

My circadian rhythms don’t seem to be all that affected either. I go to sleep and I wake up. I mostly sleep pretty well. I did wake up earlier the morning after the change but that was a good thing. I get that some people struggle with circadian rhythms and I empathize but I don’t experience it. I do remember that it took the beach urchins about a week to settle in when they were small children and I can guess pets struggle with it too.

A lot of people say they want to have Daylight Savings Time year round. I’m sorry. That’s one thing I am against. Here in the Great Lake State we are far enough north that having Daylight Savings in the winter months means the sun doesn’t come up until after 9:00 AM. I know about this because when I was a kid, the Michigan state legislature, in their infinite wisdom (not), decided that the entire Upper Peninsula (UP) should join the Central Time zone, which is equivalent to Daylight Savings Time. That made sense for people in the western end of the UP. They were already (and still are) in the Central Time Zone. Those of us in the eastern UP are more northerly aligned with Detroit than Wisconsin and us school children were walking to school in the dark here on the western edge of the time zone.

I dunno what the answer is to time zones. It’s pretty messy in general. I have no confidence in legislators at any level to deal with this. It brings to mind when some Indiana state legislators tried to change the value of pi. Fortunately, an actual mathematician was present in the state legislature that day. I mean, a bunch of “farmers” can’t just spuriously change the value of pi. Time zones are not equivalent to the basic mathematical/physics rules of our universe (or whatever we live in) but still it takes some serious thought.

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