A Reason Why We Can’t End Daylight Saving Time
Every time daylight saving time begins or ends, we spend a huge amount of time talking about it. Some of this is just reminders, as well as people trying to figure out whether clocks go forward or back for the respective beginning or end. However, there are also a lot of biannual calls to end daylight saving time.
After all, though there are those that insist the evidence suggests we save energy by following this practice, there seem to be at least as many who insist that the energy savings are bogus. Even among those who admit it might be possible that this odd practice saves energy in the long run, some insist that the confusion and disruption outweighs any possible savings.
To be honest, I haven’t evaluated one way or another. To be certain either way, I’d really need to look at the studies on both sides. However, I maintain that there is a very good reason why we can’t get rid of daylight saving time even if it doesn’t really save us any energy. Because of this additional reason, I haven’t looked into the arguments too heavily.
That reason is that I’ve burned the phrase: “Spring forward, fall back” permanently into my memory.
That’s right, I could forget my own name and I will still remember: “Spring forward, fall back.” I might not always remember what it means or how it is used, but I have found that there is nothing I can do to get this phrase out of my brain.
It’s going to be in there as long as my brain still functions in any way, shape, or form.
As such, and given how much effort everything else requires to maintain in memory, I just can’t go along with any proposition to end daylight savings time. Such would make the one thing I’ve managed to permanently remember totally useless. I can’t support that.
It might be a stupid reason, and it probably is. Regardless, please don’t render useless the one thing my brain has got thoroughly down. I can’t even remember my own phone number with the speed and effortlessness that I remember: “Spring forward, fall back.”
