Daylight Savings Time

     This Sunday marks the end of daylight savings time. This is my favorite night of the year because we get an extra hour of sleep (or partying since it’s Halloween night). Daylight savings time used to end at the beginning of October. That was until Congressman Markey sponsored a law that lengthened its time to what it is now. His thinking was that it would give people an extra hour of daylight later into the year & earlier in the spring than it used to be.

     All of that may be true but there’s a safety issue that’s been overlooked. The sun this week doesn’t rise until after 7 in the morning, when kids are walking to school. That means that for a vast majority of children on their way to school, they’re either walking on sidewalks (or in the streets if there isn’t a sidewalk) or they’re waiting for buses & trains in complete darkness. This is bad. What lawmakers should do is adjust the weeks that daylight savings time goes into effect. Make it start 1 or 2 weeks later & end 1 or 2 weeks earlier. That way, people still get later daylight & kids don’t walk to school in the dark.