We’re at that time of the year again, the time of the year when your mom reminds you to turn back your clock even though all clocks do it automatically. Because be honest, we probably wouldn’t remember daylight saving time at all if our mothers wouldn’t remind us.

But why do we even have daylights saving anymore? It’s not like we really need it, farmers do things with machines instead of slave labor now. It’s a biannual nuisance that messes up everyone’s sleep schedule. It’s just something used to ‘extend’ summer evenings and ‘shorten’ winter evenings.

Still, the optimistic people out there always say “just one more hour of sleep!” Sadly, that’s most often than not not true; most people would end up going to bed an hour later than they usually would and it that would cancel out their ‘extra’ hour of sleep.

The main question here is, why don’t we discontinue it? It’s not like getting rid of daylight saving will crash our imaginary thing called time. Most wouldn’t probably even notice. Perhaps everyone has just gotten used to it, but it would fade out eventually.

There was a time when daylight saving was relevant, but it’s not today. We just don’t need it anymore, just like we don’t need hour long commercials and mosquitoes.