What a Nuisance!

Well, Daylight Saving Time (DST) started early this morning. What a useless invention.

Basically all it does is confuse us. How many times have you had plans to go somewhere the first Sunday of DST and realize you were an hour late because you had forgotten about moving the clocks forward?

In this article from 1998, the author explains that losing an hour of sleep is similar to losing three hours to jet lag. You might as well have flown from New York to Los Angeles.

According to Wikipedia, "the disruption in sleep patterns . . . correlates with a spike in the number of severe auto accidents."

And if you're a farmer, you probably despise it. As Wikipedia states, animals do not change their behavior to correspond to DST (although you probably could have figured that out), so changing the time twice a year only serves as a major inconvenience in agriculture.

This was all Benjamin Franklin's idea. For a brilliant man, this was sure a lame one.