Daylight Saving Time is not the enemy. Standard Time is.

Twice a year, Americans come together to complain about time. The Los Angeles Times described the measure as “ending daylight saving time”; CBS called it “the first step of abolishing” DST. The media’s inability to articulate the proposition’s purpose may have led to voter bewilderment, as illustrated in the CBS article, which features a California resident who asserts: “I don’t like Daylight Saving Time. It disrupts me every fall.” Given that DST begins in the spring, this Californian probably meant to assail Standard Time but inadvertently contributed to anti-DST fervor. This weekend, please direct your complaints at Standard Time, and don’t fault DST for giving us eight months of sunshine.