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You know the drill: most of the United States advances its clocks forward by one hour tonight (and much of the rest of the world joins in as well, such as Europe, which changes its clocks in a few weeks), meaning we all lose an hour of sleep in exchange for daylight lasting longer into the afternoon and evening. Then in October, we get the hour back in exchange for a nighttime that starts at the obscenely early hour of about 5 o’clock.

Now if there’s anything that we geeks have learned anything from every scifi movie ever made, it’s that you should never meddle with time. There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that DST causes more problems than it solves. Supposedly, it’s good for retail businesses and sporting events, and its believed to reduce car accidents. But on the flip side, it disrupts sleeping patterns, messes with electronic equipment, and doesn’t do anything to reduce power usage. Not to mention the ordeal it creates for parents of small children…

So whose messed-up idea was this, anyway? Apparently, it was cooked up in 1895 by an entomologist named George Vernon Hudson, who hailed from New Zealand. (Hey Georgie, parents all over the world would like to thank you for screwing with our kids’ morning and nighttime routines, and unnecessarily adding to our stress!)

I’ve had enough. I’m hereby declaring that DST has outlived its usefulness. Why should we still observe this archaic tradition that began over a hundred years ago?

Maybe there’s hope yet that Daylight Savings Time could go extinct once and for all. The map you see above (which I found on Wikipedia) displays the parts of the world that observe Daylight Savings Time (in blue), the areas that have never observed DST (in red), and the areas that once observed DST but over time have shown uncommonly common sense in deciding to stop (in orange).

That orange area represents a not-small portion of the map, so I say we make it grow. I say we start a movement to end DST once and for all! Who’s with me?

If you want DST to end, Tweet this post (below) and add the hashtag #nomoreDST.