Well, we just spent another weekend changing clocks and grumbling about lost sleep last week, but we’re once again on Daylight Savings Time for 2022.  Collectively (and by law), we’ve all decided that what was once 6:00 PM just two weeks ago is now 7:00 PM.

Woo.  Hoo.

Honestly, other than now traveling to work in the dark (instead of the rising sun blinding me as I drive eastward) and having some additional time to prep my raised garden beds or do other yard work in the evening, I just don’t see many other benefits to this whole DST thing. The local cows will still come into the barn at their same time – no matter what the clock says – and other than now having to try to recalculate what time it is in Germany (when my sister-in-law calls), my enthusiasm for the time change has already waned.

But fear, not – dear readers, for change is afoot.

The U.S. Senate unanimously recently voted (I know, hard to believe) to “stay” on Daylight Savings Time as of 2023.  No more “spring forward, fall back” nonsense.  No more missing that church service in March because you’re an hour late (or conversely, an hour early in the fall).  No more pulling down the wall clock or attempting to sync-up the stove and microwave clocks in the house.

Now, it just has to get past the House of Representatives and head to the President’s desk for a signature.

I know, there are many other pressing problems to take care of, but can’t we start with something small and celebrate a cooperative victory?  It’s hard to believe that Arizona (along with Hawaii) is leading the way on this – as they do not partake in the annual time change.

However, be careful what we wish for.  Back in 1974, Richard Nixon (of all people) passed a law that kept us on Daylight Savings Time for two years, but after a winter of sending kids to school in the dark and no sunlight until mid-morning, the masses rebelled and begged to go back to the annual time change. 

We’re a fickle lot.

So, pending all of the paperwork, we’ll see how I feel in January of 2024, when the rising sun won’t lighten my windowsill until 8:30ish or so, but since I have trouble “sleeping in” when its daylight outside anyway, maybe I’ll finally know the feeling of lazily rolling over to a clock that reads 9:00 AM.

Here’s hoping.

What are your thoughts on the proposed elimination of the time change?  Drop me a note in the comment section below.