I hate losing time

All of us do, I know.  I am not referring to the one-directional time that all of us live through.  Not at all.

I am pissed off at the loss of an hour tomorrow, when we will be forced to switch to daylight savings time.

Pissed am I!

I am not the only one.  Here in Oregon we passed a damn bill that the governor signed off as well, and it was to have only clock all through the year.  No bloody "fall back" and "spring forward" crap.

But, we have to wait for those neighbors south of us to also agree to a year-round clock:

But to take effect, all three West Coast states have to make the same decision and get approval from Congress. Washington legislators approved the change this year. In California, voters have approved year-round daylight saving time, but legislators have not signed off yet.

After the ok from Californians, the Feds have to approve as well.

Why go through this rigmarole of resetting the clock twice a year?  Because we are stupid!  As simple as that.  If anybody believes that this is somehow an energy efficiency approach, they surely are smoking something awesome for them to overlook the facts, or they are like tRump who creates his own alternative facts:

Despite the fact that daylight saving time was introduced to save fuel, there isn’t strong evidence that the current system actually reduces energy use — or that making it year-round would do so, either. Studies that evaluate the energy impact of DST are mixed. It seems to reduce lighting use (and thus electricity consumption) slightly but may increase heating and AC use, as well as gas consumption. It’s probably fair to say that energy-wise, it’s a wash.

We can try whatever tricks we want, but the reality is that the tilt of the earth means that the farther one is from the equator, the more the days get longer after Christmas--in the northern hemisphere--and vice versa.  Straightening the tilt is the only real thing to do ;)

Let's suppose that our reasonable preference is for the sun rising, according to the clocks that we keep, at 7 am or earlier or setting after 5 pm.  (Keep in mind that this is all an accounting game--the sun is gonna do what the sun is gonna do!)  If Daylight Saving Time were abolished, then this is what we will look at:

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Abolish the damn DST already!