Today the clocks went back an hour. This is usually good news for a terrible sleeper like me because it's actually later at night when you go bed, therefore hopefully I am a little more tired when going to bed, and it's a little later before the alarm, helping again because I am always very tired after not sleeping much through the night. However, tonight despite the fact that it should really be 1:49AM instead of the 12:49AM it is I am still wide awake. Go figure.
I heard on CBC radio last week that in England there is a group of people trying to permanently alter daylight savings time in order to take advantage of the day light hours instead of sleeping through them. I think the theory is if you move the clock a little more than we do now for daylight savings we will wake up more of the year in darkness, but the afternoon will allow for more daylight. The theory of course being that you would be able to take better advantage of the afternoon daylight more than the morning daylight for activities such as sports, family time and leisure. Interesting thought. I find it fascinating and somewhat hard to grasp that we can just play with time regardless. You'd think if you just change the hours by a few to make the light better fit our lifestyles that there should be more repercussions. Isn't that human-kind toying with the universe? Then again time is a creation of man in the first place so why don't we mess with it to best suit our needs. I say go for it. Not sure it will change the fact that I'm lazy and if given a few extra hours of daylight it will most likely not entice me to go running more than I already do, but far be it for me to deny those people who would take advantage.
Let there be light! or is it Let them eat cake? Either one I'm good with...
