Wait a couple weeks

When I saw someone wearing a black dress who I know favors daylight-saving time yesterday, I mentioned they were wearing an appropriately colored dress on this "Black Sunday." I call the day we are coerced to change our clocks "Black Sunday."

When I told her I will miss the beautiful luminous mornings, she curtly said, "Wait a couple of weeks." I looked it up. On Saturday, March 8th, the sun rose at 6:50 am on standard time. I told her we wouldn't have a 6 am sunrise until May. In two weeks, on March 23rd, the sun will be up at 7:25 am, thirty-five minutes behind the standard time sunrise prior to the switch.

It won't be until April 13th when the sun will rise at 6:51 am on daylight-saving time. This DST proponent should wait a couple weeks on standard time when the sun will set at 6:43 pm on March 23rd as opposed to 6:27 pm on March 8th.

If Utah abandons DST, the sun will still set two minutes later on standard time on June 21st than it would in San Diego on DST. On that day the sun sets in San Diego at 8:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time; it would set in Salt Lake City at 8:02 pm Mountain Standard Time. That puts some things in perspective.