On a hot summer day in 1923 a federal bureaucrat was on a tour of a Colorado Indian reservation, doing as bureaucrats do. At one interval he glanced at his watch and noted it had stopped; he asked for the local time.

The Indian noticed as he set the watch an hour ahead of the time quoted. He asked the bureaucrat to explain.

The bureaucrat proceeded to explain daylight savings time and its purpose in helping conserve daylight.

At this point another Indian, who was about 100 or so, spoke up, “Leave it to the jew to cut a foot off the bottom of a blanket, sew it to the top, and then sell it as a larger blanket.”

Good, then we will be the same as our northern neighbors in Saskatchewan

Daylight savings time needs to be permanent. We don't rise early as much as we stay up late now. More light after is better than light before. Hour world works on a constructed agreement of time not on a solar experience like in the olden days. We should reflect that in our counting of hours.