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A Week of Artificial Jet Lag, Thanks to Daylight Savings Time
It takes time and a bottle of Advil to adjust
It's a beautiful day. I'm in my sitting room enjoying the sunlight, the warmth, and that pleasant feeling one has from a good night's sleep.
All is good except for one thing. I just ate a late breakfast, but the clock tells me it's time for lunch.
It's Daylight Savings Day, and I treat it like a national holiday.
I always wonder what's wrong with artificially changing the time, although it has been done for over 200 years.
I'm not sure why we do this and the expected result. Climate change keeps happening, energy costs have skyrocketed, there's a war going on in Eastern Europe, inflation is at an all-time high, and we think, but are not sure, that the Covid Crises is over. Will changing the time one hour fix any of these things?
The solar and lunar cycles have been the same for billions of years. Time is just an artificial structure to gauge what the sun, stars, and moon are doing.
Because we live by the clock more than the actual rising and setting of the sun, we are forced to adjust our circadian rhythms to fit the needs of a government-mandated time shift.
