The Weird Argument Against Permanent Daylight Saving Time
Who actually wakes up only when the sun rises?
If I had my way I’d go to bed at 2 am and wake up at 10 am. All the time. Every day. I don’t always get my way because sometimes I work temp jobs to get ahead of the bills. Writing isn’t always highly lucrative, so I often find myself setting an alarm for some ridiculously early time, like 5 or 6 am.
Now, I like being up at 5 am, I just don’t like waking up at 5 am.
In the winter it’s quiet, with curlicues of steam from my coffee cup wafting against dark windows, and my thoughts have time to play themselves out like children on a playground before settling in for the day.
In the summer, there’s the thrill of watching the sky go from pink to orange to red to gold while the birds call to each other to wake up and get over here. It’s a different kind of quiet. Or, at least as quiet as it gets in a well-traveled city neighborhood where the garbage trucks wake everyone at 6 am, whether they like it or not. But still… It’s nice.
Now, with the Sunshine Protection Act passed by the U.S. Senate on March 15th and on its way to the House of Representatives, the future of mornings — mine and yours — is likely to be a little different. If it passes, we’ll all set our clocks back an…
