Daylight Savings Time began today, three weeks earlier than normal, which means we've been bombarded by the same banal news stories the media rolls out every single year, talking about how incredibly disruptive the time change is to your health and how we'd be much better just keeping the clock in one place the entire year.
Boo f---ing hoo! To anyone who is whining about having lost an hour of sleep last night, I challenge you to hop a plane to the Far East and deal with the 11-hour difference that you experience once you land in Japan. You know what an hour time-change is? It's what you get from a flight to Chicago or a late-night phone call from your significant other or a baby that won't stop crying. It's not a big deal, people. I mean, show me someone whose sleep schedule never varies by anything close to an hour and I'll show you someone who's not making the most out of life.
Get past it, folks!
And P.S., for the last time, it's not an extra hour of daylight. Today is no longer or shorter than the same day last year, when Daylight Savings wasn't in effect until April. All we did was borrow an hour from the beginning of the day, when most people are still asleep, and stick it on the end of the day. It's not an astronomical miracle; it's legislative sleight of hand.
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