After becoming thoroughly irritated by loosing an hour after turning the clocks today, I decided to write a post about this particular topic. You see, it’s not the loss of an hour, but the whole concept that irritates me. Simply because in my opinion, daylight saving time is the wrong way around.

You see, by nature, the winter has short days and the summer long days, and what daylight saving time does is increase this difference. This means that in Norway, at the most extreme, we get about 20 hours of darkness in the winter and 20 hours of light in the summer. In my opinion, they should change the system so that it minimized the difference, not the other way around. Yes, I know that it saves us a lot of energy, but you have to remember that lots of people here get winter depressions from the lack of light, which must surely cost a lot. Of course I’m looking forward to the summer, but I don’t need that long days if it means a winter where the only time of day you can glimpse the sun is during school hours.

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