I keep saying this, and I’ll keep on doing so until they stop: I hate changing the clock for Daylight Saving Time. Would the powers at be just pick one time and stick with it for the whole year? Why are we voluntarily giving ourselves essentially jet lag for no good reason? The agony is especially acute in the Spring, during which we lose an hour of time on that Sunday. I felt horrible yesterday, even though I did the same as I usually do every Sunday.
It’s going the greatest of day when congress passes a law mandating either we keep DST or standard time forever, and never changing back.
Until then, the best we can do is cope with the difficulties. Even though today is a work day, I still woke up at the same time before changing the clock forwards. I can afford to do this because my normal wakeup time is well before when I have to actually get ready for work. When the alarm rings, it isn’t the ultimatum like it is for most people. The snooze button isn’t some penalty I am going to have to pay for later. This freedom is rather nice, though obviously I also go to sleep earlier to compensate.
Instead of forcing myself to wake up at this “new” time, I’m going to slowly allow my body to acquiesce. I’m not going to set an alarm; whenever I wake up is whenever I shall wake up. There’s no need to set a backstop alarm, because I would have to oversleep for over two hours before I’d have to begin panicking about getting to work on time.
This begs the question: why set an alarm at all? If I have such freedom of hours before I have to get ready for work, why not “naturally” wake everyday? Surely it’s better than being rudely interrupted by an alarm. I reckon this is worth exploring.
Morning paper.