11/06/2022
PSA:
Today we begin
STANDARD TIME
NOT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS
Everyone needs to stop saying it’s daylight savings because it’s not!!
Did you know standard time is actually better for your body and your mind, there is a reason it’s the STANDARD.
If we were going to get rid of one of them, the one we SHOULD be getting rid of is Daylight savings (where we Spring forward in the spring).
Our bodies are built to wake up with the sunlight and go to bed when it’s dark. So that’s why daylight savings time doesn’t make sense for your overall health and standard time does. Pushing the sunlight to be around later in the summer months actually screws up your sleep because you end up being up later at night and still have to wake up early in the morning for those who work in the am or have children, (so for those of us above the 49th parallel who get sun in the summer past 11pm it doesn’t make sense to force us to have light later. My body doesn’t want to sleep when it’s sunny out, so if we stayed on standard time, it would be light until 10pm instead of 11pm, then I would actually be able to sleep for a full nights rest.
Who cares that the winter means you have less light at night; it’s freaking winter, it’s cold, it’s wet, it’s miserable, you don’t need to stay up late, let your body sleep like it wants to, that’s why animals hibernate.
The extra hour of “daylight savings” (changing our clocks forward during the spring) in the evening doesn’t actually help you, if you want to have that extra hour of daylight during the winter, do what your body physically wants you to do anyways (if you actually let it do it’s own thing), wake up earlier and enjoy the sunlight.
Standard time was created based on the sun and waking up when the sun comes out, again hence “standard time”.
Anyways, I’ve digressed, my point is, people need to stop with all the daylight savings posts. THIS IS NOT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS.
This is the STANDARD TIME and for the sake of your health it should be the time we keep.
Feel free to share so others understand the difference. 💕