Modest proposal

Seriously, why do we do this in the middle of the night? And 7 other things worth your time.

We start Daylight Saving Time in most of the USA this weekend. I am 100% in favor of this, and looking forward to that extra hour of daylight in the evening.

In fact, if it were up to me, we’d spend all year on Daylight Saving Time. Until we can get everyone on board with that idea, however, I have another one. Actually, I’ve been advocating this for a long time.

The issue is the manner, and the time, when we lose the hour as we “spring ahead.” We do this the middle of the night, depriving people of an hour of sleep and throwing off their circadian rhythms, thus making them groggy and less productive.

So, I have a simple solution: Instead of springing ahead at 2 a.m. and thus losing an hour of sleep on the weekend, why don't we turn the clocks ahead during the day, and during the week?

As I wrote some time ago (a/k/a pre-pandemic), on ScaryMommy.com:

I'm open to suggestions as to which hour, exactly. It probably shouldn't be right at the start or the end of the workday. I don't want to pu…