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Daylight Savings (or time in general) bother you, but you're not quite sure why?  Then you'll enjoy Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (Howard Mansfield. NY Times Opinion. 3/10/2011).  Of course maybe it will just cause more 'alarm.'  Here's how the piece concludes:

We adopted daylight saving time (during World War I), rejected it (after the war), adopted it again (during World War II), and then left it up to the states and localities until 1966, when Congress once more decided it was a national concern. And as much as we complain and point out that it doesn’t make anyone more productive or save any energy, it persists. Almost every state has eight months of it each year and only four months of so-called standard time. As a result, today we rose with the dawn and next week we’ll be eating breakfast in darkness.

The change is disconcerting. But more unsettling still is the mystery we’d rather not face: If clock time isn’t real, what is time, anyway? We don’t understand time, and we definitely don’t want to admit that our allotment is limited. We just want to get on with our day.