I’ve come up with plans to fix daylight savings before, but for some reason, none of them seemed to have moved the needle in terms of actually solving this crisis.
Well, I’m not one to give up just because one idea doesn’t work, so I’ve been ruminating on other ways to get the problem solved, and I think I’ve hit on a doozy. I was close last time, but now I really think I’ve got it. Hear me out.
In fall, we fall back, just like normal. We do this every year, because who doesn’t like falling back? We get an extra hour of Saturday, and that’s a pretty sweet deal.
When spring comes, that whole “springing forward” thing is typically the thing everyone loathes. One less hour of Saturday? Not on my watch. No, I’m campaigning for (wait for it) TWENTY THREE HOURS MORE of Saturday. That’s almost an entire extra Saturday. Free of charge!
In my last plan, I recognized the need to essentially delete a day from the calendar to offset this, and I had proposed sacrificing May 31st, because May already had enough days as it was. But like I said, that proposal seems to have fallen on deaf ears. So . . .
What if, instead, we just sacrifice the Monday after we spring forward? We lose 24 hours of Monday, but we *get* 23 hours of Saturday in return! Yes, I realize we’re still down an hour. There’s no way to avoid that as long as we keep up this springing and falling nonsense. But since The Government seems set on keeping that, we could at least change it enough to make it work for all of us.
Who’s with me?!