Morning views of clouds.

I’m so confused. It’s because of the time change or NOT.

Where I live, we don’t change time in the Springs or Fall. But when everybody else does across the country, it’s strange. We went from Pacific Standard Time to Mountain Standard Time overnight. This makes it confusing making phone calls to my kids who are now in a diffferent time zone than me. It also raises havoc with the TV schedule.

We don’t Spring Forward or Fall Back. I wish the rest of the country would be on our schedule.

I wrote about the confusing times HERE.

From NBC News, here is a bit of history about the time change:

Why is this happening?

The practice, established by the Standard Time Act in 1918, according to the U.S. Astronomical Applications Department, is an effort to extend the daylight hours we have in the summertime by pushing off sunset an extra hour.

Daylight saving time, a contested idea after it was first passed, was quickly repealed in 1919, becoming a local matter. It was re-enacted during the early days of World War II and was observed from 1942-1945, according to the department.

After the war, the implementation of daylight saving time varied from state to state until the Uniform Time Act passed in 1966, which standardized the dates of daylight saving time but allowed for local exemptions if states or localities did not want to participate.

According to the department, the standardized start and end dates have been changed throughout the years, but since 2007, daylight saving time has started on the second Sunday in March and ended on the first Sunday in November.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/know-daylight-saving-time-ends-sunday-rcna178497

What are your thoughts about Standard Times versus Daylight Savings Time?