At the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, I was reminded again today by a friend/co-worker that DST is rapidly approaching. Thanks to our American cousins, we will now be "springing ahead" on March 11th this year, earlier than historically accepted and due to an (IMHO) unproven and misguided attempt to save energy.

I originally posted my "eliminate DST" post last July, and sadly have not posted since. Stay tuned, as I'm sure I'm about to start blogging in earnest. And everyone loves a good rant.... don't they?

Daylight savings time is a classic misguided scheme to fiddle with things that shouldn't fiddled with in the name of some short-sighted goal. It's confusing. It messes with the body's natural rythyms. It causes car accidents, missed appointments and numerous other headaches. Let's scrap this hare-brained idea now.

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For further reading, here's Wikipedia's summary of common DST criticisms.