I was watching Jon & Kate Plus 8 last night. Get off me, I like it. At any rate, they took a two-stage trip to Hawaii. The first stage was a stop between their Pennsylvania home and their Pacific archipelagic destination for a few days in California. The idea was that they’d put all eight kids on Pacific time so that the transition into UTC-10 (Hawaii time) wouldn’t be as drastic.
It’s something I totally appreciate. Granted James has been home so I’ve not really cared about what time I’ve been going to bed this week. But even taking that into account, I’ve just been exhausted this week because of the time switch. Even five days later I’m not fully adjusted to it (and Pilgrimage this weekend is not going to help). And coming off Daylight Savings Time is only an hour difference. It makes you appreciate how sensitive the human body is to its environment.
My other observation about Daylight Savings Time is that almost every news article about it that gives any kind of history always mentions one the the “pros” of DST being the fact that children can trick-or-treat with more daylight. Why in the heck would you want more daylight? I always thought it was strange when I watched the movie ET and all the kids were trick-or-treating before dusk. Maybe it’s just a Southern thing, but everywhere I’ve ever lived, Trick-or-Treating begins when it starts to get dark and ends at about 9:00.
Are Georgia, Mississippi and the Carolinas just weird?
