Can we improve daylight savings time?

I think we can all agree at this point: Daylight savings is dumb. 

(Check your privilege, Hawaii, Arizona, and Guam. I’m not talking to you.)

The one good thing about it... 

...(and I think we can agree on this, too)...

That extra hour of sleep.

I have an idea that I think fixes everything. 

It may seem complicated at first, but if we can coordinate something as complicated and illogical as Daylight Savings happening across 6 US timezones, 

at a different time from the rest of the world, 

on random Sundays in November and April,

I think we can handle this.

How about we all just agree to start Mondays and hour later a few times a year?

Say, the last Monday of the month on months that have 30 days.

Four times a year, everyone would just agree to do everything an hour later. 

You’d get the Sunday scaries and then be flooded with relief when you remember: Monday doesn’t start until 1am tomorrow!

Bartenders and EMTs would get paid for an extra hour without having to work it.

Your alarm wouldn’t go off, and you’d wake up in a panic until you remember: I don’t have to be at work until 10!

On your drive to work, you’d marvel at how different the light looks at this time of morning.

Lunch would come earlier. You’d realize that the day is already almost half over and you hardly even noticed. 

By 5pm, you realize that you still have a little oomph to finish up without feeling quite as rushed or exhausted. 

Getting to your yoga class at 7pm doesn’t feel as hectic as it did at 6.

By the time you have dinner, you can’t believe how late it is, and you tuck in for a blissful night’s sleep. 

And the next morning would be Tuesday as usual. 

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