It's that time again

[monophoto]

As we all know, advancing age often is accompanied by a reduction in mental facility. We forget important things (our wife's name, for example).

What we need is something that periodically tests our mental ability, something that will determine if we are approaching that state where you are totally disconnected from everything that is going on around us. Some kind of 'on line intelligence test'.

Fortunately, we have such a process. It began as part of the Nixon administration's energy program, and was modified as part of the Bush energy program - even though it has essentially no impact on energy consumption. But at least it makes it possible for politicians to claim that they did something for us even when our better judgement tells us that they are lying again.

What is it? It's Daylight Savings Time! More specifically, its the challenge that we face twice each year to remember how to reset our digital watches. Sure, we can cheat by keeping the instruction books, but the problem there is that the type gets smaller each time we look at them. So the true measure is whether we can actually REMEMBER which buttons to push, in which sequence, in order to change the time by one hour.

 

[ed4copies]

IF you refuse to change it, you will be "perpetually early" for the next several months!!

(Claim you planned it that way!!)

Ed

 

[SteveG]

I was "perpetually late" for the last several months. Now will I be early? That is my story, and I am sticking to it.

 

[Chuck Key]

I am lucky, I have a clock that automatically adjusts for the time changes. Unfortunately it is programmed for the pre-Obama dates so about two weeks ago it set the time back based on the old schedule. I set it back to the right time the next day and now will need to manually set it back an hour tonight.

 

[ElMostro]

I actually don't change my watch or any of the house clocks, I just do the math to stay sharp (adding 1 is a tough one). Drives the wife nuts...,

 

[flyitfast]

Don't change anything - you'll be right at least half the year..........
gordon

 

[manik]

Move to Arizona. You can throw away your manual and forget all about them buttons..........we got enough daylight so don't have to save any of it ;-)

 

[PeetyInMich]

You could have a winter set and a summer set of timepieces. Just swap them out as needed. FWIW the recent DST adjustment still screws up all of our scheduling programs at work for a week or so.

 

[tbroye]

Tonight is revenge night I don't change the clock in the Bedroom that way LOML wakes up at 6am to get ready for church. Do it every year and she still falls for it. All the rest of the clocks are reset all ready. She is a clock watcher and lives by a schedule even though we are retired. Every room has at least on clock including the bathrooms so alls fair. Sometime when she can see 2 clocks i will set one ahead and one back.

 

[LagniappeRob]

DST didn't begin with Nixon. It begin in the US on and off ("war time") since 1918, and many communities/states used it post WW2. Other places it's even older.

 

[Alzey]

You could have a winter set and a summer set of timepieces. Just swap them out as needed. FWIW the recent DST adjustment still screws up all of our scheduling programs at work for a week or so.

Yep. One of our systems can not handle the fall back. Something about time stamps in the database. So, we have to shut the system down at 1:45 then wait 65 minutes and boot it back up. It's not a major system, just the one we use to track everything about patients in 14 hospitals.

 

[TellicoTurning]

Don't get me started on DST... I'll wind up in a politically incorrect state of mind... in this day and age it is totally useless... back in the days when we had to use kerosene lamps to be able to work at night in the barn and around the farms it may have been a benefit, but with the electronic age of today, yadda yadda yadda, etc, etc.....:biggrin::biggrin:

 

[PeetyInMich]

"back in the days when we had to use kerosene lamps to be able to work at night in the barn and around the farms" I don't know about that, the farmers that I know get up before the sun and go to bed when the work is done. They don't spend much time fretting over what time is on the clock. I think that they woke the rooster!

 

[avbill]

Well i forgot it was Daylight saving time today! So what you think about that!

 

[Alzey]

"back in the days when we had to use kerosene lamps to be able to work at night in the barn and around the farms" I don't know about that, the farmers that I know get up before the sun and go to bed when the work is done. They don't spend much time fretting over what time is on the clock. I think that they woke the rooster!

Well said. This is the very reason why all the DST logic fails with me.

 

[KBs Pensnmore]

I don't like this daylight saving, as there is another hour of sun to fade the duco on the car and I will have to polish it more often.:frown:
Kryn