DST started last Sunday, but its critics are still trying to figure out how to reset their watches.

Daylight saving time is a government ploy. How else to explain the twitching, spasmodic reactions it provokes?

It is a government ploy designed to divert our attention from more meaningful matters. War? Housing crisis? Historic presidential race? What do we care? We're too freaked out over having to adjust our clocks to notice.

I wouldn't have said this two years ago, when we started observing DST. And when people griped again last year, I wrote it off as residual whining. It'd be gone by this year.

Yet here we are in 2008, and I've already heard more moaning and groaning about DST than you'd witness at an AVN Awards after-party.

The most aggravating thing is how limp and infantile it all sounds. DST detractors speak in sentences, sometimes even complex ones, but they might as well be saying, "Wah!"

It would almost be worth it if DST provoked hardcore rage. If people got into fistfights and drove over public mailboxes all because they were mad about the time change, that would really be something. But instead, your typical DST critic tends to complain like a teenage girl whose parents have taken away her BlackBerry.

For example, read this excerpt from a post to Indy.com entitled "Daylight savings time: A waste of time of energy!"

"Ahh, the time has once again come to change all of the time displaying appliances in my house ..... Let's start a list: my wall clock, television, VCR, microwave, watch, alarm clock (2), garage clock and car stereo all have to be changed. First off, my car stereo will take about 15 minutes to change because I have to dig out my instruction manual from wherever it wandered off to this time, then I have to change my VCR and TV ..... then the wall clock, my two alarm clocks and my microwave clock -- about another 15 minutes."

Still reading? Or have you moved on to another post? I can't say I blame you.

DST haters, it's 2008. I believe Ray Davies said it best when he sang, "It is time for you to stop all of your sobbing." Unless you haven't reset your clocks yet. Then you have, like, one more hour to sob. But that's it.