‘Tis the season for the Fall Time Change. When you got to bed on Saturday night, set your clocks and watches (the ones that don’t do it automatically) back an hour. Remember: Spring Ahead, Fall Back. It means an extra hour’s sleep that night, an earlier sunrise, and of course early darkness in the evening.
Every year at this time, and when we go to Daylight Savings time in the spring we see it – those who are really upset about the time change. But you know what? I really don’t mind.
First off, I LOVE Daylight Saving Time in the Spring and Summer. I love the extended daylight. In the Fall, 5 PM darkness certainly isn’t something I look forward to.
But the reason I don’t mind the change is because I’m an early riser. I love getting up as the sun’s coming up. Now that’s not the case now, and won’t be for quite a while even with the change, but the earlier we get light in the day, the better I like it.
If we stuck with Daylight Saving Tine through the darkest months in December and January, the sun wouldn’t rise before 9 am. I think that would be awful. Can you imagine the kids headed to school with no sunlight before 9 am?
In 1974 in the US, there was a decision made to keep Daylight Saving Time year round for two years, as a pilot project. It didn’t last for the two years, but went back the next year, because people, particularly parent with kids, hated it.