Showing posts with label Time Zones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Time Zones. Show all posts

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Time Change - The Semi Annual Shuffle

It didn't make much sense to me last year, and still doesn't this year, but all the clocks were re-set last night before I went to bed. Now, today I will go through the annual ritual of getting in my car and, just for a brief instant, wonder how I lost an hour! Then I will reset that clock and everything will be back to normal.

One of the greatest benefits about this semi-annual event is that now there won't be as many kids waiting for the school buses in the pre-dawn darkness. They will just be trying to walk home safely in an earlier twilight. Someone has said that this is safer for the children, as well as saving us money. But, at the age of 57, I'm still not convinced.

It's a day off for me. And one hour longer to boot!

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Don't Forget To Fall Back......

Don't forget to set your clocks back an hour tonite before you go to bed. Wouldn't want to cheat yourself out of an extra hour of whatever you might be doing at 2 AM! I actually waited up one year to see how the TV stations handled it. I fell asleep in front of the TV at about 1:30 AM, so that falls under the "Failed Research - To Be Retried at a Later Date" category. That list gets longer every year. I'm going to try and enjoy staying up a little bit later, and then also waking up a little bit later, which will still really be a little bit earlier, so the whole thing will even out in the end.