Daylight savings time

In only 8 short days we will get our annual sleep-deprived Monday. On that day, there will be great loss of productivity, an increase in the instances of heart attacks and suicides. International communication will become a bit more confusing for some time, especially if you deal with people in the other hemisphere, where they will leave daylight savings as we enter into it.

All of this trouble was introduced in Bulgaria in 1979 with the main goal of extending the day an hour more past working hours, in order to get people spend more time outside and use less electricity for lighting. However, with the invention of the air-conditioner and the preference of many people to avoid outside heat and stick to the climate-controlled inside areas in the summer, this could be creating more energy cost, rather than saving it. Various studies show different results, with some saying it will save, and other saying it will cost. But they all agree on one thing – the difference will be extremely miniscule.  So is there a point to go through this March madness every year? And then again in November? Not really.