Falling Back

I've never liked Daylight Saving Time. It has always seemed so unnatural, like here we humans are thinking we know so much better than mother nature that we are going to adjust time since the sun doesn't rise and set at a time convenient for us.

This is my first year not having to go along with the practice. Yep. That's right. Like so many other things, Hawaii bucks the trend. No time changes for us Sunday night.

Plus, it's just a pain in the butt to reconfigure my schedule around this arbitrary adjustment. No one tells the pets about it either, further complicating the household. It takes them months to adjust to new feeding times. So, right when they are settling in...boom...it changes again.

According to a study done by the DOT, 68% of Americans like DST. Not exactly overwhelmingly popular, but beats out the president.

Speaking of the president, he has approved the moving of the Fall change from the last Sunday in October to the first Sunday in November. Now that's his time and our tax dollars well spent. Ha! Maybe some well-meaning person put that in front of him just to keep him busy and to keep his pen off of other, more potentially dangerous approvals.

Anyway...now we are two hours earlier than mainland west coast time now, rather than three.