Daylight Savings Time, I'm not a Fan

summer fun at a pool

Israel just finished with this year's Daylight Savings Time less than a week ago.  We've never had it go on so late.  There were years without, and most had very short ones, just for the summer basically.

When I was growing up in New York, I never paid all that much attention to Daylight Savings. I as just neutral and pragmatic about it.  When your opinion  doesn't count, why get aggravated. Why think about it?

summer fun at the Israel Museum

I only began thinking about it when I was a young mother and had terrible problems trying to get my kids to got to sleep when the sun was shining.  That's when I became totally disenchanted with the entire concept.  I didn't need more evening sun.  I wanted early morning sun and early to be dusk.  I'm a morning person.

In Israel, the timing of Daylight Savings became a religious secular fight.  Some religious people wanted it to end before the twenty-five hour fast of Yom Kippur, which is usually in October or late September.  The rationale was that the fast would be "shorter" if we didn't have daylight savings, if the only the sun would set earlier.  I'm religious, but I think that's a stupid reason.  If you want the day to feel shorter, then begin prayers a bit later, an hour later, the time it would be according to the sun if the clocks here were the usual GMT+2.

If you want "more daylight, then just get up earlier in the morning, and your "day" will be longer.  To tell you the truth, I'd be happier if Daylight Savings Time would just be during the school summer vacation.  The later the sun goes down according to the clocks, the less sleep people get.  Students of all ages need sleep, so the school year should be without Daylight Savings.  In Israel we now have most of the year Daylight Savings.

Summer Time
Year	Summer Time Begins	Summer Time Ends	Total Days
2013	March 29	October 27	212
2014	March 28	October 26	212
2015	March 27	October 25	212
2016	March 25	October 30	219
2017	March 24	October 29	219
2018	March 23	October 28	219
2019	March 29	October 27	212

I protest.