Leap forward? I prefer to fall back.

Fact: People love to get an extra hour of sleep when daylight savings time ends, as it did yesterday.

Fact: Every four years we end up with so many extra hours we make a whole day out of them, as we did in February.

Idea: Instead of piling up those extra hours (six of them per year), let's roll back our clocks one hour every two months. It gives people a 49-hour weekend six times a year and eliminates the bizarre practice of leap day.

I know what you're thinking: Within two years we would have rolled ourselves so far back we'd be nocturnal. Well, I already work in the middle of the night, so that's not really a concern for me.