Where would you rather have your hour?
If you suddenly had an extra hour in your day, where would you rather have the hour?
At the end of the day, or at the start of the day? I’ve found that the hour of 6:00-7:00am looks very different from the hour of 11:00-midnight!
And how would you use it? Do you just “sleep in?”
And in the spring, when we “lose” an hour, do you complain about the loss?
I read that car accidents and heart attacks are more common in the week after Daylight Saving Time starts, because losing that hour puts stress on people’s bodies.
Actually setting the clock back as we did this morning gives us a potential way to get an “extra” hour in our day.
When we just get up as normal, our body is fine, but the clock says we are up an hour earlier. And there’s a lot we can do with that hour-especially if folks around us are still sound asleep.
The morning is a great time to form a regular habit (exercise? reading? work on a project?)
- because self-control is high,
- there are fewer distractions,
- and it’s highly predictable.
And though it boggles my mind to realize that somebody had to figure it all out with a reason for folks to buy into the idea, it does seem like a lot of us have bought into it!
And I can’t help but agree with the quote below that I used on my Facebook page and in my email notification!
What are your thoughts on the subject?
Any changes that you make that are tied to the end (or start) of Daylight Saving Time?
3 Comments
Of all the idiotic ideas humans have come up with, this is the worst. I have never talked to anyone who likes it but we seem somehow to be stuck with it. Although I still sometimes run into someone who asks me “Don’t you like having an extra hour?” Then I want to pull my hair out. When my daughter was younger and didn’t quite comprehend the idea, she asked me if the birds got confused.
I have decided to quit complaining cause it does no good. Instead I go through the motion of changing the clocks then ignore them. I listen to my body to let me know when I’m hungry, tired, etc. Of course this works for me cause I don’t have a job and can do what I want with my time. I feel sorry for others who must adjust.
I’m with Mary Kay on this one. There’s no point for this bit of weird societal craziness. It’s a human construct that maybe had some sort of an economic point ‘way back when this was set up, but now ….well, not really.
I, too, simply ignore it. The clocks get changed and I, too, allow my body to wake me, tell me when to eat, or to rest, to play or go to bed for the night. I love being retired!
I do not need or want an ‘extra’ hour. 24 is a perfectly good number. The world flows along just fine without our interference. The animals don’t care, why should we?
Once I took this approach to the whole thing, my body had no problem adjusting at all, since I was still on ‘body time’ not ‘daylight savings time’ or ‘regular’ time.
It remins me of with holding too much from my paycheck for my taxes then the gov’t hopefully gives it back in April.