Daylight Savings Alteration

Daylight savings is so jarring. It seems like the days last forever over the summer, and then we pull the clock back an hour, and all of a sudden, the sun goes down at 4:00 pm, and it's dark by 5:00! It feels so discombobulating! No wonder everyone hates it! But I have a suggestion that will make things much more gradual, and far more acceptable. It goes like this:

There are two times per year where we reset the clocks, right? So that's two segments of 6 months each. And there's 60-minutes in an hour, right? So that makes ten minutes per month. So starting in January, we set the clock ahead 10 minutes per month until July, where we set the clock back ten minutes per month. This will have the same daylight savings effect, but gradually, without all the stress and disorientation! And since it's only ten minutes change per month, if you forget to reset your clocks, you'd only be ten minutes late (or early), and you could just blame that on traffic! See how much better it is?

Lobby Congress if you want to do it! Hey, they'd welcome any distraction from their failed Super Committee right about now, I'd think, so we could probably get them to do just about anything!