Why Daylight Saving Time Should Be Abolished

I ranted about this last March. Since then Scientific American has made Daylight Savings Time number one on their list of Human Creations the World Would Be Better Off Without. This week-end SA editor David Biello added his voice to the growing consensus that DST should be abolished. DST is an ill-conceived anachronism and a bumbling attempt at … Continue reading “Why Daylight Saving Time Should Be Abolished”

Get Rid of Daylight Saving Time! (Rant)

I’m sitting in my office at 7am and it is completely dark outside. Why?  We have “sprung forward” on that biannual experiment called Daylight Saving Time. They’ve stolen my morning again, the bastards! DST is an anachronism that should be abandoned. According to Wikipedia… Modern DST was first proposed in 1895 by the New Zealand entomologist George … Continue reading “Get Rid of Daylight Saving Time! (Rant)”

[Expletive Deleted] Daylight Savings Time Again

Time for my biannual rant about DST. This time I’ll highlight the excellent essay Daylight Saving Time Is Terrible by Allison Schrager from The Atlantic. Her scheme basically collapses the four US time zones into two, with NO adjustment for Daylight Saving. (Yea!) For me the the spring change is worse. It takes me more than a … Continue reading “[Expletive Deleted] Daylight Savings Time Again”