The daylight saving time dread

I wasn’t going to do it this year, I really wasn’t. I was just going to let the daylight saving time change pass without it’s annual mention on this blog.

BC had announced they are remaining permanently on daylight saving time, and then the very next day, I wrote a lengthy and exhaustive email to the Government of the Northwest Territories urging them not to make the same mistake, and then I was just going to leave it. I wasn’t going to bring it up on my blog this year again too.

However, shortly after we did once again insist on taking ourselves further off solar time, we had the kind of night which would have been much less painful on standard time. It was the kind of night that demanded a lot of patience, still in the -30s of course. Hours passed and passed but we remained, and finally passing 3am, we were there under exactly what we had been waiting so long for. But the 4am return to town, at the end of an exhausting season through a never ending winter, cumulatively, does take a toll.