Well it’s that time again, we all experience a little jet lag when we fall back Sunday morning.  Now I rarely agree with Doug Mataconis at OTB on anything  but I have to make an exception when he asks if it’s Time To Dump Daylight Saving Time.

At 2:00am on Sunday morning the United States will once again engage in the biannual tradition of changing it clocks, this time dropping back an hour to mark the end of Daylight Saving Time and the beginning of Standard Time, which we’ll stay on until March 9th, 2014. It’s been this way or many years now, indeed it wasn’t long ago that Congress changed the law so that the period during which we were under Daylight Saving Time was extended by about two weeks, but it’s still one of those things that seems hard to justify when you look at the evidence. As I noted back in 2012, there’s a good chance that all this time changing may be bad for your health, and there’s no evidence that it results in the reduced energy use that its proponents claim that it does. In fact, all that clock changing seems to actually cost us some $1.7 billion per year in opportunity costs. In its new issue, National Geographic argues that we should do away with the idea of Daylight Saving 

While there is no evidence that it saves energy there is evidence that it results in people shopping more and latter.  Retailers like Walmart love it.  There is also plenty of evidence that it’s bad for our health and has a negative impact on productivity.  When I lived in Japan my Japaneses friends found it incomprehensible that we would do such a “silly” thing.  When I lived in Munich my German friends had much the same reaction.  It’s going to be dark X number of hours and where you set the clock doesn’t change  that.  I live north of the 45th parallel and it’s going to be dark a lot in the next few months and it really doesn’t really matter what the clock says.  In the summer it’s going to be light  a lot but once again what the clock says really changes nothing.