Patria killed daylight saving time. USA and Canada should too

Because it is not worth the lost hour of sleep or going to work/school in the dark.

Daylight Saving Time (DST), aka needlessly lost sleep and several weeks of going to work or school in the dark, has outlived its usefulness - if it ever had any practical use. Energy savings are minimal or virtually non-existent. Fatal traffic accidents spike during the first days after DST begins. The lost hour of sleep has even been linked to heart attacks.

DST was established almost 100 years ago as a way to save energy that was needed for munitions plants and weapons factories during the so-called Great War. Since then, technological and scientific advancements have changed not just our energy consumption, but our understanding of the importance of a good night’s sleep.

Thanks to the proliferation of computers, smartphones and other devices, changing clocks an hour forward in the spring (and back in the fall) is not the chore it once used to be. Nonetheless, wrist watches and wall clocks have not gone away and it is still a pain in the ass to re-set them.

Fortunately, Patria does not bother with needlessly setting clocks forward and back again at 2:00 AM on a designated Sunday. DST was repealed in Patria back in 1987 (43rd Congress legacy) and no one misses DST to the point of wanting to bring it back. The economic and social costs of DST were just not worth any benefits it might have produced.

It is a moot point in Patria, but you can let your representatives in the US Congress and Canadian Parliament know DST isn’t just irrelevant in the year 2016 — it’s harmful to our health.

Stop DST petition (from change.org)

End daylight saving time (petition to US Congress)

Daylight saving time, your hour is up!

One of the names of the Divine Mother is kala-vinashini - She who destroys time. Because Patria runs on God's time!