I’m not much of a morning person, and I have a very difficult time getting up if there’s no light outside. That said, I generally exercise in the mornings before work, so on most mornings my alarm goes off at 6:20am. Usually 6:20am isn’t too bad, since it’s around dawn or sunrise.
This morning, sunrise was at 7:19am. I’ve been waking up in the dark for the better part of a month, and now I’m waking up a full hour before sunrise. The problem is Daylight Saving Time — it’s moving daylight from when I need it (morning) to when I don’t need it (evening).
Don’t get me wrong: during the summer, DST is great. Sunrise is still early enough to wake me up, and I get the extra hour of light in the evening. The problem is that it isn’t summer anymore! We’re more than a month into Autumn.
When Congress adjusted DST in 2005, they went the wrong way. DST should have been made shorter, not longer. I would say that the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in October would work well for DST.
Tags: daylight saving time, gripe