"Time is making fools of us again." — J.K. Rowling

 "Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of the blanket and have a longer blanket."  -  Attributed to "an old Indian" when told the reason for daylight-saving time.

 

And so it is that Daylight Saving has finally ceased for another year.  I can only say thank goodness for this.  I don't like it and will continue to register my disapproval for this hideous practice of tricking ourselves.

Are we this silly as to think this does not affect us in a bodily fashion.  I think it effects the very core of our being and lowers our immune system.  I have an understanding that the amount of light entering through the eyes of a person directly effects everything that occurs bodily within the person and so to change this by one entire hour and then change it back after a number of months and to do this year after year continually plays havoc with this internal clock.  I have spoken out against the practice since it's inception to our daily lives as a permanent arrangement in N.S.W, Victoria and South Australia back in 1972 after a trial by all states the previous year.

Daylight Saving Time means that there are five separate time zones in Australia at one time whilst it is being implemented.  There have been many positives and many negatives.  It was instigated to save money by using less power because of lighting but really,  do we need to do this now that we all use energy efficient lighting?

The reason I disliked it so much was the challenges of putting children to bed in broad day light became a laborious task I hated.  It was easier to pretend the world had gone mad and live by our own schedule and only fit in when we had to.  The children never liked it as children and I fully supported this decision they had made.  I think that the fine tuning of light coming into the body via the eyes is a finely tuned process as well.  I don't like the idea of playing around with this and our circadian rhythms

 Currently four states and one territory in Australia and they are New South Wales, A.C.T., Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia  as of midnight last night are now all suffering a from of Jet lag. .  This happens because their body clock has been tampered with.  The body clock is responsible for many hormonal exchanges that occur through out the body so to have switches turned on when clearly there is no bodily reason is a result of this practice.

I adamantly oppose daylight savings time. It truly makes no logical sense. It is just another government "smoke and mirrors" trick, that's all. And it is just one more way of them having control over our lives.

Al, Austin, TX
March 11, 2012 5:36am

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