Daylight Saving Time is evil

People think they like Daylight Saving Time because they enjoy having longer evenings, but that was going to happen anyway. They just think it's caused by changing the clocks because they've grown up that way. We would all be better off letting the days get longer and shorter naturally, gradually through the course of the year, changing schedules for certain things (summer hours/winter hours, moved at the first Mondays of spring and fall) to take advantage of the longer evenings and earlier mornings.

It's not just the trauma of adjustment we go through twice a year. We have a natural sense of where we are in the progression of the day, and it's really unhealthy, whether you think you've adapted or not, to have the clock say it's an hour later than you feel. It's enough that we round off regionally for Standard Time, but at least that's close to real (sun-aligned) time for the area. Believe it or not, it's easier to stay on Standard Time, setting automatic devices for the next time zone to keep them right, and mentally correct for all the people and clocks playing this crazy game, than to pretend it's an hour later than it feels.

The denial of nature, thinking we can ignore it or control it, is at the heart of so many problems in the world today. I'm not kidding when I say that Daylight "Saving" Time is evil. We should accept and enjoy the rhythms of nature as they are, healthy people thriving in the flow of life.