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I don’t know anything about who came up with the idea of Daylight Savings Time. I suppose it would be an easy enough matter to research – I don’t know how any writer functioned in the pre-wikipedia era – but I have such a vivid picture of this pestilence, that I’d rather not be enlightened.

Here’s my theory: the inventor of Daylight Savings Time was an evil sociopath. Not content with the usual career opportunities available to the soulless – politics, telemarketing, serial killing – he decided to instead torture generations of innocent, overtired mothers, by once a year, taking away one precious hour of sleep from them.

As if it’s not exhausting enough racing through the morning routine of child waking, breakfast serving, lunch box packing and making the school run on time, now we get to do it all while still half-asleep. No wonder the number of fatal car accidents spikes every year right after the clocks change.

Posted 12 March 2007 at 11:22 AM