Daylight savings will come to an end early Sunday morning, as we all get an extra hour of sleep. Nice as this seems, it generally works out to be a lousy deal.

At the very least, however, there are many amusing stories surrounding Daylight savings time. Perhaps the best is this one about Amtrak:

To keep to their published timetables, trains cannot leave a station before the scheduled time. So, when the clocks fall back one hour in October, all Amtrak trains in the U.S. that are running on time stop at 2:00 a.m. and wait one hour before resuming. Overnight passengers are often surprised to find their train at a dead stop and their travel time an hour longer than expected. At the spring Daylight Saving Time change, trains instantaneously become an hour behind schedule at 2:00 a.m., but they just keep going and do their best to make up the time.

That seems a perfect example of bureaucracy in action.

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