I think we should do this Daylight Saving thing more often. Twice a week would be perfect. We could all take an extra hour of sleep Monday morning to prepare for the week and get over the weekend, and then we could make the hour up on Saturday when everyone sleeps in anyway.

Those of us in college could appreciate a semester-based scheme of time changes. Everyone makes it to class just fine, maybe even early, in the first couple weeks. Then we start arriving just in the nick of time. As the semester starts winding down, we're tardy to every class and by the end of the semester we're not concerned about showing up a half hour late, if at all. The most obvious solution is to simply set the clocks back one hour every week. No Saturday corrections. Just let the schedule slip back hour by hour into more reasonable time slots. I don't see how this could fail.

Taking this matter to its logical extreme (since clearly an unspoiled good is better than a half-hearted reform attempt), we would assign every person their own individual time zone. Due to expanding concerns about similarly expanding waistlines, we're headed that way anyhow. If the culture took this to heart, the student in the room above mine can have her Early Bird Catches The Shower zone while I can survive and thrive in my own May The Morning Never Come zone. We set (or stop, as it may be) our watches accordingly and if we happen to miss the thermodynamics professor, the only consequence is that we no longer experience death by boring. It would be very difficult to be late to work since any reasonable timecard system would know you brought your time with you. Doctor's offices could notify patients with appointments in advance that the doctors' personal time zones are an hour behind everyone else's.

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