If you’re anything like me, Sunday morning came quickly.
It’s that time of year again where our clocks “spring” forward and we get an extra hour of daylight in the evening.
I hate “springing” ahead. Even if you sleep in till a reasonable hour, you’re still getting up an hour early. Not to mention the fact that the clock goes directly from 1:59 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. It’s like we all lost an hour of our lives. Scary, man.
On the other hand, I don’t mind the “falling” back in the winter months. Who in their right mind would oppose an extra hour of sleep?
In my younger years I was especially thrilled with an extra hour when I went to the bar. You’d look at your watch and just as the lights were about to come up and closing time approached – poof – you get an extra hour of revelry with your friends. It’s like you gained an hour of time.

I know, I know. You’re not actually getting back an hour of your life, you’re merely making a down payment in the spring that you claim back in the winter.
In an agricultural community like this there are probably more than a few people who would be just fine if we never changed our clocks.
After all, Saskatchewanians don’t change their clocks at all. But then again, they wear hollowed-out watermelons on their heads at football games.
The goal of daylight saving time is to give people more sunlight in the later parts of the day.
For the most part, farmers don’t have the luxury of caring about what time the clock reads. Cows have to be milked and the work still needs to get done.
Which brings me to the ultimate question: Do we even need daylight saving time anymore?
The people who depend most on daylight to do their jobs don’t really care, so why should we?
I’m sure many kids wouldn’t mind. That was one of the worst parts about summer as a kid: having to go to bed while the sun is still shining – it just doesn’t feel right.
In the winter months, it really doesn’t matter anyways. Most of us rise early enough in the morning that we’re going into work in the dark, and we work long enough hours that we leave in the dark.
So what’s the point?
Those in the tourism and entertainment sectors would like to have daylight extend later into the nighttime hours. But who else?
One of the only arguments is that daylight saving time cuts down on the amount of energy we use because we have more hours of sunlight and are less dependant on artificial light.
But really, it’s nothing more than a pain. We all basically just got off a plane from one time zone over, and will be going through this week like zombies.
So let’s act on our collective annoyance and stop springing ahead and falling back every year by getting rid of daylight saving time.
And if not, that’s ok. I’m already looking forward to that extra hour of sleep in November.

Chris Lowrey