It’s Daylight Saving Time Once Again
Ah, social media. Be it ever so mundane, you can be absolutely certain that somebody, somewhere, has the most incomprehensible, unhinged and body temperature take imaginable. And for clarity, I mean body temperature like that feeling of walking in a pile of hot dog vomit at 2 AM while investigating the horrific noises coming from the beloved, if somewhat dim, family pet.
Being the first weekend of October, today’s take came from the usual suspects on the East Coast, my favourite of which was this gem.
Because the thing we here in WA love to hear is being accused of living in the past for thinking that 8 PM is plenty late enough for the sun to go down, please-and-thank-you. If you’re all happy to play merry havoc with your circadian rhythms twice a year, so be it. But let’s not pretend this is anything other than yet another excuse to start meetings at 7 AM. Except now you get to feel slightly less bad for forgetting we exist.
Meanwhile, we’re out here living our best lives with sun, surf, and six seasons that actually make contextual sense for our climate. I guess one could argue that the six-seasons thing is quite retrograde, being based on patterns observed by a 45,000-year-old culture, if they chose. But sometimes modernity requires sacrifice, even if that means basing our meteorological seasons on imported from the other side of the globe from the world’s pastiest monoculture.
It’s not like they don’t have form with it either. My eldest child was born in Ireland on the summer solstice, meaning that with DST factored in, it was light until 11 PM and got light again at 3 AM on the day she was born. But why would a country that already gets dark at 10 PM decide to torture itself with daylight savings? Because the Brits do. And if it’s good enough for the British, it’s good enough for Northern Ireland, which means it has to be good enough for Ireland, or things start to get, uh, tense.
But please, I beg of you, tell us all about the progressiveness of daylight savings time.
Debbie Choo 
Bethany Miguel 
Tarkyn Sharples