Back in the
days before the use of logic, some well-meaning citizen thought it
would be a good idea if there was another hour of sunshine when
people got out of work in the winter. So he presented the idea to
his Congressman, who immediately thought that everyone should adjust
their clocks twice each year in order to gain the extra hour. Dimwit
that he was, a requirement for being a Congressman, he never thought
of the alternative of allowing everyone to simply start work an hour
earlier in the morning, and leaving work an hour earlier in the
afternoon. And so a law was passed that required clocks to be
adjusted in all states, unless the Legislature of any state voted to
opt out, which the Arizona Legislature promptly did; the Indiana
Legislature allowed some areas of Indiana to opt out as well. So
here we are some years later when the world has made great advances
in the application of logic, when one newly-elected legislator in
Arizona announced that he would introduce a law requiring Arizona to
conform to that ancient edict. Imagine his surprise when he received
an avalance of comments opposing his idea, so he promptly
back-tracked. So now the question to be asked is: Should we abolish
Daylight Saving Time and allow people the opportunity of changing
their work hours? What say ye?
