Messing with my inner clock
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 at 8:46 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
I liked the old Daylight Savings rhythm, when the days suddenly went short just before Halloween, and spring sprang upon us in April. This new system, which sees long afternoons through November, and dark mornings as early as March, messes with me. I feel out of synch. Still, I dutifully comply, not only because it would be impossible not to, but because I’ve told it will help save energy.
Or not. It turns out that the two month extension of Daylight Savings may not be such a good thing (although geography affects that outcome). Apparently Mother Nature is doing just fine on her own, and doesn’t need us playing around with clocks.
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Agreed. I woke up @ 7, and it was dark out, which to my way of thinking, is OK when it is December, but not the way it should be when days are around 12 hours. It could be worse: we could have changed the clock by a half hour, as was done in Hugoslavia.
This changing of Daylight Savings illustrates the difference between those who are temperamentally conservative versus temperamentally “liberal.”
Conservative: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
“Liberal”: all change is good.
The parents of a classmate of mine had fled Hitler’s Austria. Her father was a political scientist of a decided conservative bent. I wondered to myself how someone who had fled “right-wing” Hitler, became conservative. I later figured out the answer. While life before 1933 was not perfect for Jews in Austria and Germany, it wasn’t that bad, especially in comparison to the CHANGES that came after 1933. For those who think that CHANGE is always good, look at Hitler and also at the Jim Crow laws that were enacted in the 1890s.
Perhaps Daylight Savings Time once had a purpose, but it doesn’t now, unless you consider having an extra hour before dark to cut your grass or go to a baseball game. I wish the powers that be would settle on which they want and stay there until the end of time. The constant changes are awful on small children, worse even than on Bookworm (and me, for that matter).