Daylight switching time
I hope everyone remembered to set their clocks ahead one hour for Daylight Switching Time last night. (One fall I forgot all about setting my clocks back, and ended up going into work an hour early that Sunday, making a five-hour shift into a six-hour one.)
I prefer the term "daylight switching" to "daylight saving" because we're not really saving any daylight, we're just switching if from the morning hours into the late afternoon. I don't really care a great deal about it one way or another, except when we get that extra hour in the fall; that's very cool (with the exception of the above-related incident). However, the one thing that does bug me about starting it now is that it's darker later in the morning. As I've said before, I'm not a morning person, and what bothers me the most is when I have to get up when it's still dark out. I usually don't mind getting up early if the sun's already up. During the school year, I have a regular waking time of 6:30. It's just gotten to the point where it's light out by then, and now with the switch, it'll be dark again when I get up. All for an extra hour of sunlight in the evening? I take it back -- it's not worth it.
I prefer the term "daylight switching" to "daylight saving" because we're not really saving any daylight, we're just switching if from the morning hours into the late afternoon. I don't really care a great deal about it one way or another, except when we get that extra hour in the fall; that's very cool (with the exception of the above-related incident). However, the one thing that does bug me about starting it now is that it's darker later in the morning. As I've said before, I'm not a morning person, and what bothers me the most is when I have to get up when it's still dark out. I usually don't mind getting up early if the sun's already up. During the school year, I have a regular waking time of 6:30. It's just gotten to the point where it's light out by then, and now with the switch, it'll be dark again when I get up. All for an extra hour of sunlight in the evening? I take it back -- it's not worth it.
posted by Kootch | 4:30 PM
3 Comments:
Well,
Time never-ending
Did not exist before man
It didn't matter.
(As you well know, Mo.)
All the money they makes, they gives to their chillen
My question about all this time switching and time zones, etc. which has still gone unanswered is:
Why can't it just be the same time all over?
I actually had a great idea on how to do that at the beginning of the Century, but no once seemed interested.
As usual, i have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
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