It's that time again
March 16, 2026
We started daylight saving time in the US (and Canada) last week. So everybody was understandably grumpy about the sun coming up an hour later.
When I tried to maintain permanent daylight time a few years ago, I felt that it was kind of a wash -- evenings were better but mornings sucked. Everything else was benefits of me being an hour ahead of everybody else around.
Since then I've learned that during the Oil Crisis in the 70s we tried moving to permanent daylight time, and everybody hated it. I get it, those mornings really sucked, and I worked from home. Having to drive to work in the dark probably would have tipped the scales for me.
On the other hand, I absolutely don't want to do permanent standard time. The sun coming up at 4 in the morning would be an absolute waste, and I'd be annoyed at having to buy blackout curtains just to be able to get a good night's sleep.
Which means that the current situation, modulo some nibbling at the edges, is probably the best option. We hate changing the clocks, but we'd hate not changing them more. So I guess we're stuck with out semi-annual jet lag session for the long haul.
