standard time
And all our intuitions mock
The formal logic of the clock
W.H. Auden
Just a note to say that I’m against our chosen collective delusion of daylight saving time.
Or rather, I’m against the time changes, adding or losing an hour by the clock; when it comes to reform I don’t care if we stay in daylight saving or standard time, only that we stay somewhere.
The thing is that, no matter how we set our clocks, it’s just going to be darker longer in the winter. Dark is dark whether in late morning or early evening. Forget the increased traffic deaths, the lower productivity, etc. that surround the time changes each year. These are human reasons. Cosmic reality—astronomy—is more compelling.
We cannot change the tilt of the earth. My greatest dream is that one day we’ll accept this, let it be dark, and maybe even sleep longer in the winter like other more sensible creatures.
I’d also accept world peace instead…
See also this common sense reform from Prof. Dan Cohen.