We Need To Fix Daylight Savings

Right off the bat, the mnemonic is bull shit. I can just as easily fall forward as I can fall back. I never remember which one we get to sleep more and which one we get one less hour at the bar. If my memory serves, this is one of those things they pretend Ben Franklin invented. They say he invented like this, electricity, glasses, and libraries. No way one guy invented all of that shit. Ben Franklin allegedly created daylight savings for farmers I think. Back then though, everyone was a farmer or you didn't eat. We need to go with what's good for the majority of the public. The fall clock-turn is fine, leave it the way it is. Spring however needs to stop springing forward. This is my argument for more nighttime year round.  

I propose that it gets dark at 6:00 pm throughout the whole year. What good comes from sunlight? Daytime sucks. What do you do during the day? Work? Run errands? Night time is where the fun is. It's when we go out to bars. During the summer people don't go to bars until 10:00pm because it's only been dark for like an hour. Then you're up til an ungodly hour because you only have few hours to squeeze your night in. During winter, the second the sun goes down it becomes socially acceptable to hit the bar. "But we like to day drink!" Grow up, day drinking stinks and it makes you way too sleepy. Besides, you still have until six to day drink that's plenty of time. 

Sporting events are better at night. Especially baseball games. When you're walking into a baseball stadium for a day game you say a silent prayer in the ticket line that you're in a section where the sun isn't shining. If hanging with the sun is so great, why does everybody love shade? Then there's that sweet spot in a ball game, where the sun is setting over the stadium. We can have that for almost every game!

For the homebodies this is crucial. If the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, there will always be someone to tell you to get out of the house. For whatever reason, people pretend that it isn't socially acceptable to watch tv or play video games while there's still daylight to be had. My manifesto reduces that window for people to make you feel like shit for being inside. 

Mo' sun mo' problems. I challenge anyone to give me a good reason why we should keep that thing in the air any longer than it has to be. What can you not do at night that you do during the day? Keep in mind that you still have until 6:00 to go to the beach, tan, play sports, jog, whatever it is you people do.  More fun, less sun.