Sunday, people living in states that follow this practice will set their clocks back, gaining the hour of sleep they lost in the spring.…
…that happens twice every year has always puzzled me. For one thing, one doesn't "lose" an hour in the spring and "gain" it in the fall; there are the same number of hours in every day. They're just numbered differently.
For another, the hour supposedly "gained" always happens on a Sunday morning, a time when most people can sleep an hour later if they want to. And Sunday happens 52 times a year.
Plus, you can "lose" an hour five times a week by watching Jimmy Fallon.
I once heard a woman claim, in a TV interview, that Daylight Saving Time was "messing with God's time," God's time apparently being Eastern Standard. And I once met a guy from New York camping in the northern Minnesota woods who was frustrated because it got dark by 9:00 every night but he couldn't go to sleep that early—he re-set his watch so the sun didn't set until 1:00 AM and everything was fine after that.
I guess it all depends.
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