Why do they call it Daylight Saving Time? Time is one of the many things, like youth, beauty and opened bottles of wine, that cannot and should not be saved and, in any case, saving things is positively un-American. Daylight Borrowing Time would be more appropriate. All through the summer we took that extra hour of daylight on credit, adding it to the end of the day to give us those long summer evenings. At the end of October, when things are bad enough already, what with Halloween and the elections and Thanksgiving and the holidays and winter all coming up, our borrowed time is suddenly and arbitrarily snatched back, and half the population sinks into the depressed state called SAD or Seasonal Affective Disorder – which is not a disorder at all but merely a commonsense reaction to the months of gloom and darkness that lie ahead. This nonsense began during the First World War, supposedly as a device to save electricity. But really it represented the triumph of the Morning People.