45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2002

ACKNOWLEDGING NEW MEXICANS' PREFERENCE FOR THE NATURAL SOLAR CYCLE OF TIME RATHER THAN THE SEMIANNUAL DISRUPTIVE ADJUSTMENTS TO DAYLIGHT-SAVING TIME.

WHEREAS, daylight-saving time is an artificial interference with the natural order of life; and

WHEREAS, daylight-saving time may have been invented with the intention of 'saving' the light of day by advancing our clocks an hour during warmer months; and

WHEREAS, daylight-saving time continues to add to human confusion in tracking time and its geographical differences here and abroad; and

WHEREAS, daylight-saving time causes many New Mexicans frustration with each mandated semiannual change of clocks, both internal and external; and

WHEREAS, the history of daylight-saving time is a textbook example of unnecessary and uncalled-for government interference and an unfortunate and disorienting example of fooling most of the people most of the time; and

WHEREAS, establishing a single standard of time throughout the United States would immeasurably simplify life for us all; and

WHEREAS, New Mexicans in general appear to have a preference for natural effects, including the daily blessing of solar vitality for plants and animals, including humans that may be out of sync with the sun; and

WHEREAS, daylight-saving time saves neither daylight nor time;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the great state of New Mexico acknowledge a willingness to live in God's time and take appropriate action to forsake so-called daylight-saving time and return to standard solar time for the full twelve months of the year; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that no New Mexican be forced to live outside the natural solar cycle time, to miss the song of the early bird, to ignore our miraculous sunsets in favor of "prime time" sitcoms, to continue to follow an artificial schedule and to live our lives controlled by somebody else's clock.