Time Zone

One of the downsides of coming back from Daylight Savings time is that it gets dark so early now.  I guess we've essentially traded an hour of evening light for an hour of morning light.  In practice, this means that the sun wakes me up early in the morning, I got to work, and it's pitch black by the time I get home.  In retrospect, I'd rather have the extra hour of light in the evening.  This got me to thinking that all of this is pretty arbitrary.  We didn't really gain an hour last weekend, we just shifted around all of our socially responsible agendas.  It's almost as if we switched time zones, although in this case the jet lag is entirely self-induced and not due to the curvature of the earth.  

So which time zone is the best?  Having lived in three time zones, I have to say that the Central Time Zone beats all the others.  This is governed pretty much by arbitrary social agendas---in this case the television schedule is much better in the Midwest.  Now, I actually don't watch too much tv, but I do try to catch the evening news.  It's much easier to watch the nightly news at 10 pm rather than 11 pm, especially if you have to wake up to go to your 8-5 job.  Everything in the Eastern and Pacific Time Zones just happens one hour later.  Prime time starts at 8 pm rather than 7 pm, and don't get me started on being forced to watch live sports early in the morning in California.  I guess I'm just old and I need my sleep.