Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
We may never get back that hour of sleep we lost over the weekend to usher in daylight saving time if a bill making its way through the New Mexico legislative process is approved.
It will be a small sacrifice, however, if it means we don’t have to flip-flop our clocks twice a year for a purpose we don’t remember any more.
We will become like our neighbors in Arizona who have also freed themselves of fall-back, spring-ahead nonsense. Arizona would always be an hour ahead of us instead of sharing our time for one part of the year.
Changing time designations twice a year seems to be an attempt by government to control something no one can change, even with authority granted by the highest law in the land. The passage of time has marched at the same pace through Democratic and Republican administrations alike despite attempts to regulate its measurement.
It’s time we left time alone.
If we decide to set our time once and forget it, we will be doing ourselves a favor.
If we leave it at “daylight” time, we will always enjoy a little more daylight at the end of our traditional office-hour days.
We might also be safeguarding our health. Sen. Cliff Pirtle, R-Roswell, the sponsor of the bill to keep daylight time year-round, says studies show time changes contribute to health problems, including heart attacks.
We would applaud one less government-imposed inconvenience should the daylight saving time bill pass. It will give government another opportunity to leave us alone.
That, to us, is reason enough to keep daylight time a constant.