Please, just let me sleep a little later

As some of you have heard by now, we turn the clocks ahead this weekend, moving over to Daylight Savings Time pretty early this year. There are some historic reasons, some alleged energy-savings reasons, and a lot of sick-of-winter psychological reasons for doing this.

The problem is, some of us have to deal with internal clocks that make a good night’s sleep pretty difficult as is. Now there’s this additional wrinkle, compounded by the fact that a lot of areas of the country are still so cold that you can’t do much with that extra hour anyway.

So I side with anyone who accepts the fact that DST means losing an hour’s sleep. Which in turn means it’s going to have an effect on everybody at work – trying to stay focused and cheery when you’re actually tired and grumpy.

What do the experts say? They suggest we use the remainder of the weekend to readjust to the new time schedule. Exercise more, don’t take naps, avoid caffeine, and make gradual sleep adjustments,

Pardon me, but if we could do that anyway, eight hours of sleep in only ONE night wouldn’t seem like such an unattainable goal.

What about you, does the switchover to Daylight Time mean a lot of extra coffee at work on Monday?