Lee Clemmer {dot} com

Rant time. Sitting on the El, I just emerged from the tunnels and into the daylight. Daylight. I get up just before 6 and am on the subway by 6:30. As of last week, I was able to see the day slowly awake as I made my way to work. Now the magic is gone.

What’s even worse is that by the time I leave work to wait for the 104, its nearly pitch black. I can already see the bus missing me altogether as I huddle beside the pole and watch headlights rush down Westchester Pike. It’s so arbitrary anyway.

Theoretically we the people come to an agreement to do this, but in reality its someone in government making the call. And of course this year the dates for falling back and springing forward were both delayed a week or two, requiring, if nothing else, computer patches to fix the problem. How annoying, and what for?

I’ve heard that here in the US there are pockets that don’t observe DST. More power to them. It seems like one of these outdated things that perhaps made sense once upon a time, like voting on a Tuesday. But not any longer. Perhaps the best reason against DST is the fact that, well, it doesn’t save me daylight, and wasn’t that the point?