Daylight Savings Time

I do love this time of year.  Tomorrow morning we magically transition from Standard (Winter) Time to Daylight Savings (Spring/Summer) Time.  As much as I like it, the Einstein doofus-screw-up who designed the transtion made a huge mistake.  Since I am all about improving the human condition, I have a proposal for a more well engineered transition to and from Daylight Savings Time.

First consider the current situation.  When we "fall back", we gain an extra hour of sleep.  When we "spring forward" we lose that hour.  Both occur at 2AM on a Saturday morning.  A better transition would begin in the fall.  Instead of gaining an hour at 2AM, we should gain that hour at 2PM on a Saturday.  The benefit would be an extra hour of weekend that would be enjoyed by all.

In the Spring, we lose an hour at 2AM Saturday morning.  That is one hour of weekend forever lost.  I suggest that we lose that hour at 2PM on a Friday.  Friday afternnoon is a low productivity time of the week, so magically zooming forward from 2PM to 3PM would have little impact, and would make the work week one hour shorter.

How is that for improving the human condition?  It's what I do.