To: The Washington State House and The Washington State Senate
Abolish Daylight Saving Time
Every spring and every fall this system causes accidents, biorhythms are upset, we are all angry and miserable. We oversleep and turn up late for work. The government, businesses, and institutions spend untold amounts of money resetting clocks and adjusting machinery. It's time to abolish this useless system.
Why is this important?
Most people don't even know why we have Daylight Saving Time. It is rumored that it saves energy, but there is no proof of this. In the Northwest, with the natural season changes, darkness can be at 4:30pm in winter to as late as 10:00pm in the summer. We don't need this additional headache of changing the clocks an hour in one day, when nature does it for us nice and gradually. There is no reason to keep this system in place, other than perhaps some Wall Street traders making a killing with some trades on those days. And, of course, those will be the people with the money to oppose this petition.