For nearly 20 years, twice a year I have written a letter to The Herald regarding the dire consequences, as well as the nuisances, of changing our clocks to aid and abet the Daylight Saving Time fiasco. After our state Legislature voted in 2019 to stay on Daylight Saving Time permanently, I stopped my twice-yearly ritual as this act made clear that our elected officials either no longer cared about the common person or was not interested in the research showing the impact of disrupting the circadian rhythms of the entire population simultaneously on everything that ails us pertaining to health, productivity, education, traffic.
Stopping this practice and adhering to Standard Time would be the first step in reversing almost every problem we deal with. And now the only way to stop it in our state would require an Act of Congress.
Just at the very moment that our daylight configuration is near perfect — sunrise around 7 a.m., sunset around 7 p.m. — the powers that be rush in and tell us to switch our clocks And they have the audacity to think that they they made the extra daylight happen.
If the Washington state Legislature had voted for our state to stay on standard time year-round we wound not need an Act of Congress to stop this nonsense, and we would be living the dream now.
Elizabeth Thoreson
Snohomish
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