It’s that time of year again.

The weekend when the powerful profiteers behind Big Clock force us to wake up at 2 a.m. to turn the little hand forward — losing an hour of sleep as we find ourselves staring at the smoke alarm on the ceiling worried that the battery is about to run dry.

There are a multitude of reasons to believe that our annual “spring forward, fall back” two-step has run its course, but frustration has to be at the top of the list.

Frustration that finds itself expressed this way:

“It’s time to put a stop to the twice-a-year time-change madness. Science and common sense show that more year-round daylight would improve our health, help kids spend a bit more time enjoying outdoor after-school activities, and encourage folks to support local businesses while on a sunny stroll in their communities.”

That’s Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden announcing his support recently for the implementation of the bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act which, if signed into law, would make this weekend’s exercise the final time we go through this circadian nightmare.

Those backing the Sunshine Protection Act point to troubling numbers in a study published last fall by the journal Current Biology, which said that 36,550 deer deaths, 33 human deaths and 2,054 human injuries a year — accidents costing $1.19 billion in collision costs — could be prevented by ending the requirement to turn clocks back an hour in the fall.

The U.S. Senate actually passed the bill in 2022, but the measure got bogged down in the House of Representatives and never made it to President Joe Biden’s desk.

The hope is that, finally, the end of Daylight Saving Time is nigh as House leadership has passed into the hands of the Republicans — who these days seem intent on trying to set clocks back … to the 1950s.

You’re probably asking yourself, “Wait, didn’t the Oregon Legislature vote to end Daylight Saving Time?”

Indeed it did, as part of an agreement with its north and south Pacific Coast neighbors to strike futon their own and put an end to this other March Madness and allow folks to get back to taking sunny strolls in our communities.

Washington followed suit immediately and all seemed right with the world until — you guessed it — the California Legislature put the kibosh on the effort despite the support it had from the voting public.

The way we measure time is mucked up in so many ways.

We know there are 365 days in a standard year, despite our general acceptance that we reach that total through 52 weeks and seven days a week. (52 x 7 = 364, for those without a calculator handy.)

The seventh through 12th months of the year, meanwhile, have names derived from the Latin for seven through 10. And then we go and add an extra day to February every four years, if only to masochistically make presidential elections longer then they already seem.

Is it too much to ask just to let us sleep through all 364+1 nights without having to worry whether our clocks are in synch?

All we’d have to worry about then is how to remind us to swap out our smoke alarm batteries.