It’s that time again. Time for me to get on my soapbox (blog) and rant (rage) about the fact we in the USA will fall back an hour. Now, I consider me a fairly reasonable person. In fact, my talent has always been to be able to quickly see another point of view. But in my fifty years of viewing, I can not figure out the why of the silly twice a year time change.

Before you start telling me about farmers and school children I’m going to stop you right there. Just don’t. I also don’t want to hear the origin story with Ben Franklin. In most cases, anything a couple of centuries prior to my birth is not relevant to me.

I need a solid reason why we still do this in the 21st century. Until I get that strong reason I am going to continue my twice a year rant for all of my two readers. There are at least four previous posts I have written in my personal crusade. They are not helping the cause but they do help me feel like I am getting the message out there. By out there I am referring to my two readers.

At work the other day, I read this little factoid.

A March 2022 poll by Monmouth University found that one in three Americans prefer to keepthe continue the biannual clock-resetting process as it stands, but more Americans (six out of 10) would prefer to do away with the twice-a-year change.

“Where the Push to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent Stands”, Time, November 1, 2023

My first thought as I looked around at my office of four was, one in three? Which one of these traitors wants to continue this madness? I will make them change their mind [insert angry emoji here].

For the record, we are four out of four in agreement that the fact we still do this change twice a year is ridiculous. Yes, I checked. There is no one in three in my corner of the world. In fact, I have never met any of the one-third misguided souls. That seems a little made up since by now in my life I would have bumped into at least one of those silly 33%. Not once have I heard anyone say, why, yes, changing the time twice a year is an absolute delight!

So, why do we still do this to ourselves? When I start going down the road of why I start sounding like a conspiracy theorist. Because it starts with: who profits from this time change? My list gets more and more absurd because seriously, who would profit from this? Here is a sample of my list.

• Bartenders for two reasons. One, depressed people may choose to self medicate. Two, if it is darker earlier people may go to such establishments earlier and then spend more time and money.
• Similar to the first on the list, any drug pusher.
• Movie theaters and similar entertainment venues. When it gets darker earlier people will stop spending so much time outside and be driven to indoor activities.
• Restaurants because who wants to BBQ in the dark?
• Doctors (this is where the absurdity takes a wide broad swipe) because I heard when the time changes there is a spike in heart attacks. True or not, I am throwing any possibility on this list.

Notice I did not include any educational, agricultural, or ranching profession. Because that would just be ridiculous.

In short, I don’t understand how I live in a society with enough sophisticated ingenuity that allows me to electronically share my thoughts to anyone in the world by using a device that rests comfortably on my lap as I sit in a recliner but can’t undo the need for a twice a year time adjustment. And no, I actually could not care less on the why we are doing it but rather the why we are doing it still.

Now, if you don’t mind, I will spend the rest of the weekend wallowing.

The Worst Day of the Year