Last weekend, in the night from Saturday to Sunday, daylight saving time started again.
We decided to go to bed and get up ‘at the normal time’, and only put the clocks forward an hour on Sunday morning.
Thus that morning became an hour shorter than usual, which I thought was still better than a shorter night.
It’s not like my biological clock can just magically lose or gain an hour and the duration of the effect of my medication doesn’t just change either.
Our body would rather just continue in the rhythm it is used to.
As far as I am concerned, daylight saving time may be abolished as soon as possible.
But of course, like many human inventions, it was conceived to increase productivity and thus to generate more money.
The EU wants to keep daylight saving time and it would be inconvenient if neighboring countries lived in different time zones, so EU countries cannot abolish it on their own.
Of course, the whole concept of ‘an extra hour of sunlight’ is nonsense.
The hours of sunlight remain the same, we only shift the clock time.
And we humans are not really built for that at all.
Of course, ‘the clock time’ is also just a made-up time, but it is the one that our bodies and brains are used to.
Clock time is a way to get a grip on the passing of time and to be able to divide it into handy pieces.
In the past, with the rise of industrialization, it was the way to make sure that everyone could get to the factory on time, to start working at the same time.
And, also nice, a way to see when people were allowed to stop working and go home again.
But anyway, it’s daylight saving time again, so we can have the feeling for a few days, maybe weeks, that it stays light a little longer in the evening.
And for that we pay the price that it stays dark a little longer in the morning.
Like I said: I don’t need it.