At age 58 (this weekend) I've been around for over half of the current century. My understanding of daylight saving time, from childhood, is that it was instituted to give more time in the late afternoon and early evening in the summer months for outdoor recreation, at a time of the year when warm weather permitted outdoor activities and when doing so would not put people getting up and going to work in the morning in the dark. Later attempts, and a vote in the Congress, to keep it year 'round failed, primarily because it would put our children going to school in the morning in the winter in the dark. I was in favor of keeping it year 'round. But now that I'm older and wake with the sunrise each day DST in winter would make me late to work on a more regular basis than I am now. Time is inexorable, except when those quantum electrodynamic timewarps known as "spring forward" and "fall back" thrust themselves into our consciousnesses.
Ross McCluney, Cocoa, Florida
