Sleep! I once read about a scientist who sealed himself for several months in a room with no natural light and no clocks. Colleagues monitored his movements and discovered that before too long he had settled into a 25 hour daily cycle. So maybe the reason humans are tired and cranky all the time is because we're forever trying to cram 25 hours of life into a 24 hour day!

It's appropriate that this question comes at the end of John's week in Florida, a state whose residents are especially harmed by daylight savings time. Fla is the southernmost state in the eastern time zone and hundreds of miles west of most east coast states, so the last place to see sunrise in the summer. In Fla, 6 am EDT is always before sunrise. Washington is close to the meridian, so the politicians there are blissfully unaware of how the policy effects us in Fla. For more, see: www.floridahatesdst.org/

my question why can't we stop the day light savings time be like hawaii and arizona.

I'd spend the hour with a therapist trying to figure out why I fret so much about not having time to get things. I'm an employed, empty nester, lviing on my own -- where does all the minutia come from that takes time away from feeling like I'm getting things accomplished?!!

I'd like to have more time to listen to the radio, but I'd like to have a "speed up" or "skip" button to get past stuff I don't want to hear (John singing?).

It's funny to hear so many people saying they'd work on their novels and writing if they had more time. I am a housewife, I have no children, and have almost all the time in the world but I find everything else to do BESIDES working on my novel and other writing projects. I think I'd actually use my time better if I had LESS of it!