Hooray! DST ends Sunday

Sunday is the day I’ve been looking forward to since 2 a.m. March 9; it’s when the day Daylight Saving Time ends.

If most people are somewhat like me, they’d rather keep the same time year around. The end of DST is easier for me to handle than its start … because I get to sleep a little longer.

I don’t understand why getting up that extra hour earlier with DST’s start creates such a strain. It normally takes a week or so for me to adjust. That seems sort of silly. I’ve been known to get up at 2 a.m. in order to participate in an activity I enjoy – like an all-day hunt.

As of now only Arizona and Hawaii don’t observe DST and that twice-a-year clock changing routine.

For the past few years, former Senator Marco Rubio, now secretary of state, had introduced a version of what he calls the 'Sunshine Protection Act,' which would permanently establish daylight saving time nationwide. The bills, however, always died before they ever came close to becoming law.

Many Time Laws Introduced in State

Oklahoma has previously introduced an array of bills regarding daylight saving time, ranging from keeping it all year round to eliminating it altogether.

Personally, I’d prefer to have a permanent system – one way or the other.

In April 2024, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill to 'lock the clock' and permanently use daylight saving time year-around. The bill would still require Congress to approve the time change before it takes effect.

New efforts to establish standard time yeararound failed to pass as they died in committee in March 2025.

One of the nation’s founders, Benjamin Franklin, reportedly first thought of DST while serving as ambassador to France in the early years of our nation.

He thought it would help save candle wax back then when there were no electric lights.

I can assure from personal experience that electricity is a major improvement over candles or kerosene lamps.

Doctoring Cat in Dark Poses Problem

One disadvantage of returning to standard time will be doctoring our daughter’s diabetic cat every 12 hours when that occurs after dark in the evening hours. It will be easier in the morning hours, compared to now when 7 a.m. is still dark.

On a side note, I’m still trying to figure out why Kevyn the cat is our responsibility. He came to our house when Ellyn moved to Michigan some six years ago. By the way, having a cat around has never been a problem. I have observed as many as half a dozen showing up in our neighborhood all at once and we have no interest in becoming a feline dumping ground.

Christine says I don’t have to feed the newbies but most seem to expect it.

Whoops, I have gotten off the subject of DST. Maybe we’ll get off Daylight Savings Time– or on it permanently – after we get this Artificial Intelligence (AI) thing figured out.

Is Artificial Intelligence an Even Bigger Problem?

I’m still trying to figure out what people will do to earn a living after computers get smarter than geniuses and do all the work.

One fellow pointed out recently that an independent study indicated that more advanced AI machines become very defensive when they sense people attempt to dismantle them.

Seton Motley, founder and president of Less Government, wrote: 'Recent tests by independent researchers, as well as one major AI developer, have shown that several advanced AI models will act to ensure their self-preservation when they are confronted with the prospect of their own demise - even if it takes sabotaging shutdown commands, blackmailing engineers or copying themselves to external servers without permission.'

The rich (elite) seem to be at the front of the AI effort.

While it might seem that the elite can’t wait to get rid of the rest of us, wouldn’t that result in humans going extinct?

And who would they sell their gizmos to then? We live in interesting times, or maybe I just don’t understand.

Help.