The Columbian is on the daylight saving bandwagon. Missing is the general consensus amongst sleep experts that standard time is more in tune with our natural body rhythm. While I agree with not changing clocks twice a year, my dissenting vote is for year-round standard time like Arizona and Hawaii.
I’ve never heard a good reason for needing light after 9 p.m. And, as a weather guy recently said about year-round daylight saving, in late fall and winter, the coldest and gloomiest time of the year, little kids (and even not so little) will be going to and spending half their morning in school in pitch darkness, adding to the epidemic of depression among young people. Of course, they don’t vote, so Sen. Patty Murray doesn’t really care about them, her pandering rhetoric notwithstanding.
Didn’t we try this once in the 1970s, during the oil embargo? The folks complained about the morning darkness, and the energy saving was negligible. It was repealed. See The Washington Post article of March 18.
Add this to protesting masks and vaccines as evidence of the manifest selfishness in our present culture.
