01/10/2024

Overthrow the Tyranny of Morning People

It's time to end Daylight Saving Time

I'm a night person, and I say: The rest of the world needs to sleep later.

Creatures of the Night

This is the time of year when opponents of changing the clocks go on about why it's unhealthy to fall out of sync with the sun, about why a practice first instituted more than a century ago is outdated, about how much human productivity is lost while we all run around changing the hands and digits on timepieces. Those are all great arguments, and I agree with them, but that's not really why I hate letting go of daylight saving time.

I hate it because, as a general rule, I cannot stand "Morning People." I do not like to cede even one minute to those chipper and virtuous larks, the co-workers who send you emails marked "5:01 a.m." and who schedule "breakfast meetings" at dawn so we can all do some work before we get on with... doing more work. They are my natural enemy, and I refuse to entertain their caterwauling about waking up in the dark.

Please select this link to read the complete opinion piece from The Atlantic.