I just realized that the Big Switch, the Great Myth, the Fabled Fiction is about to be foisted upon us once again…in a week!!!! Oh, no! It’s difficult to put into words exactly how much I loathe Daylight Savings Time. A great well of revulsion rises up in my gullet, and for a few days I refuse to be comforted!
WHY, when according to a 2025 Gallup poll, more than half Americans JUST SAY NO, do we continue with this crime against nature? Our brains rebel against this travesty by refusing to become fully awake and by not aligning with the new counterfeit sleep schedule. And, to compound the situation, in the few days following mandatory clock changes, hospital admissions go up, with more strokes and heart attacks. Car accidents increase, mood disturbances disrupt normal behavior, production of inflammatory markers, one of the body’s responses to stress, increases. Permanent DST would delay daylight until 9 am in some parts of our country. That’s preposterous. Let’s think of all the children waiting for school buses in the dark. People! Wake up!
The American Academy of Sleep Science has tried to persuade Congress to do away with this absurd, myopic ritual of changing time because of the negative impact on human health and safety. “Our internal clocks are extremely sensitive to natural light and environmental shifts. Even a one-hour change can have serious consequences for health and safety. We need to end the practice of seasonal time changes and stick with standard time”, says Dr. Karin Johnson, sleep medicine physician and co-chair of the coalition’s steering committee.
This isn’t just a personal vendetta I have against this time travesty. It’s a national environmental defamation of nature. So, next Sunday, March 8, I will be in mourning for morning.
