There’s been a bill floating around in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate for some time that will keep Daylight Saving Time permanent.
If approved, that means we won’t have to turn them back and forward anymore.
My wife and I were talking the other night of how well we like Daylight Saving Time for various reasons.
Recently, we also were recalling a vacation trip we took with our daughter to the Grand Canyon more than 30 years ago. On that trip, we spent a night in Winslow, Ariz.
The next morning, after having breakfast, we headed out and as we were driving towards Flagstaff a guy on the radio station we tuned into gave the time. At first, we thought what he said was wrong. But when he repeated it a little bit later, we thought, “that’s wrong.”
We soon discovered he was right after all, and we were an hour off. We had been since we crossed into Arizona sometime Sunday afternoon until Monday morning.
Because we thought Arizona was in a time zone that was two hours different than ours and that wasn’t the case since that state is always on Daylight Saving Time.
I think it makes sense to stay on it all year. So do my wife and my motherin-law.
A person just has a lot more daylight, even in the fall and winter, to get things done, to enjoy the outdoors. It’s ridiculous to be changing back and forth, moving ahead in March and falling back in November.
My wife was saying that, “Daylight Saving Time just gives you more time for what you want to do after work.” As it stands now, from the first Sunday in November through the second Sunday in March, one is limited in the amount of daylight he or she has after 5 or 5:30 in the evening.
It even provides extra daylight hours on the weekends.
What I hope to do is make better use of that time in the evenings, especially on weekdays, accomplishing things that I am so good about putting off.
In the fall, it would allow more time for hunting, I’d have more daylight to grill in the evenings, even maybe golfing, if I can ever get back into it.
I can see how those who farm and raise animals might enjoy it more because they would have additional daylight to check and feed them.
I just hope both houses of Congress agree and pass the bill.
That could be chalked up as a positive.