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I hate daylight saving time. It’s such a bother.

Twice a year, we have to get around to changing our clocks. While this isn’t a huge pain, this simple act creates problems for me and a lot of other people. As mentioned previously, I don’t sleep enough. This process ends up altering my sleep pattern and causes more issues in trying to fall asleep. It also creates problems contacting other people. While most areas of the United States follow daylight savings time rules, some places do not. This makes it difficult to remember what time it is in other locations where friends, family, or acquaintances might live.

It’s not that the process of changing clocks is a hassle. Most modern technology does it automatically. While the recent change in the dates required some adjustment in computer software, a lot of things were able to have the flaw corrected. However, this does not hold true for everything. VCRs, and other non-Internet connected devices usually don’t have a reasonable way to correct this. And so, it reverts to requiring the manual adjustment. Again, not a hassle. It’s easy to do.

But the results of that one hour change are stupidly unnecessary. So we get an “extra” hour of daylight throughout a portion of the year. It’s not like that’s really true. We’re not relocating the United States to a location that actually gets longer periods of sunlight. We’re just moving our superficial measurement of time.

I just don’t see a real point to it.