November 06, 2011 06:11 PM UTC

Mountain Standard Time Open Thread

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• by: Colorado Pols

If it were up to Sen. Greg Brophy, we’d be on Daylight Savings Time the whole year in Colorado–which is another way of saying we’d be on Central Standard Time half the year, or something like that. They draw time zone maps with a special notation for your state, which is kind of cool. Brophy says we should have a standard time that lets us enjoy matchless Colorado evenings. Who can argue with that? Rep. Ed Vigil, on behalf of farmers, proposed a bill to keep Colorado on Standard Time the whole year. Because farmers like to get to bed early.

As it turned out, federal law prevents Sen. Brophy’s approach, and while it apparently doesn’t prevent Rep. Vigil’s…well, neither bill passed the legislature as you know.

So we hope you set your clocks back last night despite the inconvenience–especially if you have lots of clocks–but at least it’s more mellow when you discover you have an extra hour in the fall, as opposed to the nasty surprise you sometimes get in the spring. You might even say the government took that hour from you in the spring, and is just now giving it back.

That’s actually pretty good “Tea Party” stuff, isn’t it? Sen. Brophy is free to use it next year.