Daylight Saving Time

​Today is the Ides of March.  This date became historic because Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Roman Senate on this date.  This is your thimble of history for today.
Last weekend we moved our clocks ahead by one hour to begin Daylight Saving Time.  First, you should know that Daylight Saving(s) Time is incorrect.  You can look it up for yourself or trust me on this.  In many parts of the world it is called “Summer Time”.   The idea behind moving the time ahead by one hour is that it “saves” time in the evenings when we are all home from toiling at work.  In the depth of summer here in the Midwest the sun sets about 9:00 pm.  If we didn’t move our clocks ahead the sun would set at 8:00 pm.
This should teach us all a lesson.  There is Time with a capital T and there is time, or more accurately how we measure time.  The fact that we invented Daylight Saving Time shows the genius of our species and how we control our perception of the world.  The sun actually sets in the pattern dictated by our rotation and pitch and position relative to the sun.
The term Daylight Saving Time is confusing and misleading.  We don’t “save” anything.  There is no physics that allows sunlight to be “saved”.  Einstein confused matters worse because he taught us that time is a dimension.  In fact there are four dimensions that are most accurately described as “space-time”.  Einstein also taught us that time isn’t static, it is elastic.  Time stretches or compresses based on how fast we are traveling.  The faster we travel – time slows down.  Now that is a nifty trick.
What I do know about Daylight Saving Time is that I lose an hour of sleep.  It disappears – gone – I don’t know where and it screws up my internal clock – called the circadian clock or circadian rhythm.  The circadian clock is unique to each of us controls our sleep/wakefulness cycle during the day.  When we change the clock time it doesn’t match our circadian clock and there’s trouble. 
So, is experiencing an extra hour of sunlight in the evening worth it?  I’m sure each of us has our own answer.  There’s one thing for sure.  In my case, it alters my sleep/wake pattern for about a week.  What is your experience?