Daylight Savings !!! - Actually what does it save??

Mar 9, 2008- After a long Saturday I woke up on Sunday having some plans to spend the day in a fun filled atmosphere, watch some movies, make a nice cuisine.... But just as I referred to my cell phone to see the time, my half open eyes just draw wider. What! The clock has gone one hour in advance due to daylight savings. The irony lies in the fact now that my windows mobile 6 manager is asking me whether it should advance the time or not. It seems as if I am in-charge of deciding that and if I negate the time will go back again. Phew!

Anyways , many of rational people out there would argue whats a big deal about this. So what if the time has advanced by an hour in March, it does not matter that much since its anyway on a Sunday. They might add also that I never complained when we gained one hour back in November. But the basic reason is no one complains if they gain something, they do only if they lose. Here I lost my valuable one hour, which I could have spent in idling activities such as watching a movie, or reading about Hollywood-Bollywood affairs, or even chatting over phone with my friends in different parts of USA. All of us have heard about the famous phrase from Thomas Kempis' Of the Imitation of Christ -- 'Man proposes but GOD disposes', but I think time has come to coin another phrase 'Man proposes but Man disposes'.

I was so depressed about losing this one hour that I could not work in proper frame and peace of mind for the rest of the day. This was one of the worst Sunday I have spent. Generally, I don't do anything substantial on any Sundays, but this Sunday was spent in doing absolutely nothing and most of it owes to the bad start. And what a way to end the day by watching 'Leaving Las Vegas', one of the most remorseful movies ever made, I guess . Anyways, in all this all owes to the 'Daylight Savings', at least it didn't save me from anything, but caused this extreme trauma and snatched away the Sunday from my life.

Today morning the first thing I did was to google for the daylight savings. Apart from coming across this wonderful website on the topic (http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html), I also came across some interesting facts. One of them tells that daylight savings is indirectly a cause of a possible health hazard. Recently a study in Australia found that the number of male suicides increased in the weeks following daylight-saving time. Researchers believe that the shift in daily rhythms could put people at high risk for suicide in greater danger. The shift in the time may also severely affect your daily sleep routine. So in short one can ask the question what does it actually save?

Although my allegation can be termed as a biased one and mostly emotional but someone should better believe these health researches. So before saving daylight save your souls.