Daylight Savings Time

I live in Indiana and for the first time in my memory we are trying on DST to see if we like it.

I hate it. As an early riser I find that my daylight hours have been shortened.

Later this month as I finish my two-mile walk down on the high school track at about 0500 or 0510 the light should just be coming up in the eastern sky. This year it will still be dark. And in early summer when I should be going to bed with the sun, I will be dealing with sunlight coming through my window. (Thanks Governor.) At 0530 I sometimes pull weeds in my garden before getting ready for work... but not this year. And saddest of all, there will be no morning devotions outside on the patio while the birds provide a soundtrack to the psalms. I'll be inside with the light on.

Daylight Savings Time encourages sloth... people sleeping in until 6, 7, maybe even 8AM. It encourages people to stay out later, driving up the price of gasoline, shopping, drinking, and chasing women.

For me they have it backwards. We should move our clocks ahead in October. The sun would get up at 0900 when I've already been at work for two hours. And friends, even in the dead of winter darkness should never come at 5PM.

Yes, I think we all know DST is destructive and evil. I may get used to it, but the first three days have been just terrible.