Kwitcherbitchin’ And Stop Blaming Daylight Saving Time

It happens every year. Every damned year, people.
As the calendar rolls into November, our days get shorter and shorter and darkness arrives earlier and earlier in the day. Every year.
People complain about it and say they hate it. Every year.
We are instructed to set our clocks back one hour, the “fall back, spring forward” rule we follow. Every year.
Following this task, it gets dark one hour earlier. Every year.
People complain some more, this time about that “stupid daylight time” making it too dark too early. Every year.
So, yes, people get peeved about it. Every year.
So, now my peeve. The protestations of these folks are misplaced. In the fall we go OFF daylight saving time so complaining that daylight saving time is what causes it to get darker earlier is wrong. If we got rid of daylight saving time altogether, it would get dark at precisely the same time that it does now. But during the parts of the year when we do observe it, it would also get darker an hour earlier. Daylight saving time is what gives us the extra hour of daylight you somehow think you are losing now without it.
So let’s all stop blaming daylight saving time for darker days in fall and winter. Every year.
Thank you for your consideration.
Now, if we intend to keep daylight saving time, here’s a suggestion. Let’s do away with starting and ending it at 2am on Sundays. When we “spring forward,” let’s do it at 4pm on a Friday so the clocks shoot straight to five pm and, Eureka, it’s happy hour already. When we “fall back,” have it happen at 5am on a Monday so everybody can wake up, set the clock back to 4am and get another hour of sleep before work. It’s genius, I tell ‘ya!
* NOTE: It’s daylight saving time, not “daylights” or “savings” time, thank you.