Radio Free Montone: My Body Clock Won't Adjust To DST
By John Montone, 1010 WINS
Digital clocks will seamlessly switch from Eastern Standard to Daylight Saving Time in the wee hours of Sunday morning. But my body clock will not.
I don't dread Daylight Saving Time. But I do dread getting there. I will spend a sluggish Sunday, followed by a sleepless night and at 3:30 A.M. on Monday which will really be 2:30 A.M. I will call editor Maloney and ask, "How are you doing?"
"Great," he will say.
"That's a lie," I will say.
At some point on Wednesday I will finally feel fully awake. And after dinner with the sun still bright I will take a walk. And I will think, this is good. Until I try to fall asleep with that same sun streaming into my bedroom and the cries and shouts of children out playing in the sun after my bedtime. It will take another week for me to get used to falling asleep during daylight. Then I will embrace Daylight Saving Time.
While taping for the CBS2 News, "Montone on the Move," segment that will air Sunday morning, my producer Rebecca Granet and I asked people questions such as, "Do you know what Daylight Saving Time is?"
To which a young fellow named Jayden replied, "Kinda, sorta yea." Jayden said it is when the clocks, "Spring back."
A young lady told us it meant more sunlight …"in the morning."
One gentleman thought it was something, "Farmers need."
The best explanation came from a fellow named Rick who said, "Ya get home from work and it ain't dark." Rick said he will spend the extra daylight with Tony Bennett playing in his headphones, taking a five mile walk followed by a steam bath. He thinks Daylight Saving Time is good for his "ticker."
And maybe it is. But the government's claim that it helps Americans save energy has never been proved. And a farmer who was asked if the additional sunlight made his job easier said that his tractor has lights. The owners of clock shops really hate it.
As I get ready to suffer the onset of Daylight Saving Time before embracing it, I have a suggestion; once it's here keep it. No more springing this way and falling that way. One time all the time.
