Save Time (and Money) and Improve Health and Safety by Abolishing Wasteful Daylight Saving Time

Daylight Saving Time should be abolished, and with it the wasteful, in terms of time and money, semi-annual changing of the clocks, with its disruption of the circadian rhythm for sleep, harmful health effects, and increase in automobile accidents. Although some people appreciate the earlier light in the afternoon after the switch to DST and even propose to remain on DST permanently as a solution to the problems caused by having to change the clocks, they forget that no law can alter daylight by changing the revolution of the earth around the sun and thus increase the total amount of daylight whatsoever. The tradeoff for an hour more of sunlight in the afternoon, therefore, is an hour less of it in the morning and thus an increase of accidents, including for pedestrians, especially for students on the way to school. Remaining on standard time, in synchrony with the sun, would be the healthiest and safest solution.