Why don't they make clocks that adjust just a few seconds a day in sync with day light savings? For example instead of getting up an hour early and trying to adjust your body for a week of sleepiness you could have a clock that made you get up just a few seconds early every day from Nov 6th through March 13th. That way every day you would get up 28 seconds earlier than the day before. It seems like it would be better for productivity those weeks that the change is made.
For those of you who say "Wait a minute, what about in the fall when we get to sleep in an hour." I say two things. 1) Does having to get up an hour earlier in the spring really make up for being able to sleep in an hour in the fall? 2) You get to sleep in but at work now 4:00pm feels like 5:00pm. I would like to conduct a study where I prove that employees are more likely to play solitaire during that hour of work than any other hour of work the entire year.
Question:
What is your opinion on saving day light? Do you love it, hate it, live in Arizona? Given the option would you keep it the way it is or take the 28 sec adjustments if you could?
For 3 years I lived in Arizona, where they don't believe in daylight savings time. The biggest problem was that the sun came up at 5:00 AM in the summer. That was great if you like to get a round of golf in before work, but for the rest of us that are still sleeping at that hour, it made thick curtains a must. Then, on those wonderful summer evenings, the sun still goes down at 8:00, which makes them difficult to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI really like your clock idea. It would work especially well if all clocks were nuclear clocks, that were able to keep updating themselves to some central source. However, given recent events, I'm not sure I would want anything radioactive strapped to my wrist.