Mother Nature insists we use standard time year-around

Additionally, daylight saving time forces children to wait for school buses in morning darkness, which makes their welfare more of a concern. Drivers can't see them as well if they enter or walk along the street. Perhaps hardest of all for adults who work and children is having to wake up in morning darkness to get ready to start the day when our natural inclination is to be sleeping until the sun is up. In summer, when it's natural for just about everyone to want to stay up as long as the sun is shining, it's more difficult to get the sleep our bodies require to function properly and healthfully. People who don't get their required number of hours (seven to nine) of sleep tend to live less long than those who do. Consider an article at ScienceDaily that was published on Jan. 10: 'Sleeping less than 7 hours could cut years off your life." 'Researchers analyzing nationwide data found that insufficient sleep was more closely tied to shorter life expectancy than diet, exercise, or loneliness. The connection was consistent year after year and across most U.S. states. The takeaway is simple but powerful: getting seven to nine hours of sleep may be one of the best things you can do for long-term health.' It's not unusual for very young children, who are so full of vim and vigor, to often resist taking a nap during the day, though when required to do so, they will usually fall asleep. Even as young adults, we are not fully aware of the importance of rest, so it's understandable we want to just stay awake as long as possible instead of getting our required sleep. And thus, the reason it is so terribly vital for our senators to vote in our best interest, which means to vote no for year-around daylight saving time that makes us lose vital sleep in summer. They should instead work to bring about a vote for maintaining standard time year-around, and do away with the nonsense of making their constituents change their clocks twice a year.