Babies do not observe daylight savings time. This is because babies are smart. But what this means for the adults, is that the whole losing/gaining sleep thing is reversed. Many people across the USA sadly lost an hour of sleep yesterday, but not people with babies! We got to sleep later than ever!
You see, babies do not know how to read clocks, so they do not care that the clock says 6:30 am, they only know that it is wake up and party time. And if the adults change what the clock says, it has no effect whatsoever on when wake up and party time is. So now the clock says 7:30 am, and the baby has magically slept an hour later! Instead of getting up at 6:30 every morning, the lucky parents get to sleep until 7:30! This is a wonderful arrangement.
It does kind of screw you over in the fall, when suddenly the baby goes back to waking up at 6:30 and you were used to sleeping until 7:30, but at least everybody else will have gotten an extra hour of sleep, so you can ride the waves of their happy energy to stay awake.
In summary, daylight savings time is dumb and no longer makes sense in a post-agricultural society, but I’m feeling very well rested today, so I will give it a pass. At least until the fall.
