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Daylight Saving Time ends tonight. Set your clocks back one hour before you go to day or you may be late for church tomorrow.
Next time we do this, we will do it sooner. “Beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time is extended one month and begins for most of the United States at 2:00 a.m. on the Second Sunday in March to 2:00 a.m. on the First Sunday of November.”
I don’t expect this to affect the Christmas shopping season.
Update: These cuckoo clock museum owners in London will take all weekend to turn back their 500+ clocks.
Update: Dave Lull directed my attention to this humorous article on the origins of Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time. When Standard Time was proposed to meet the desires of the railroad industry, some said it was “puzzling, saddening, or infuriating [to assume] that time was arbitrary, changeable, susceptible to the whims of the railroads or defined by mere commercial expediency. Surely the world ran by higher priorities than railroad scheduling.”
I would television scheduling to that.
Actually, I think we’d be early for church instead of late, though some tend to be late for whatever the reason.
Ahh, you’re right. That shows how much of a fluff-head I am, even though I’m some people will show up early, think they have time to burn, and go do something that will make them late.
Many years ago I lived on reservation land in northern New Mexico. The subject of daylight savings time came up, and one of my Tewa friends said “Just like a white man. You cut one end off your blanket and sew it to the other end to have a longer blanket.”
Well, yes.
They took an hour from us in the Spring, and now we get back — without even a few seconds of interest in return for the loan.
*snarl*
Heh, heh. I love that story.