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Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
This fall-back, spring-forward stuff is really getting to be a drag.
In the fall, you gain a precious hour of sleep but have darkness fall early through an already dismal time of year.
Now, in the spring, we lose that hour of sleep.
Why not just leave it alone?
Or we could keep the extra of daylight, which would perhaps amount to a small but substantial energy savings, could we not?
I heard it is also mentioned that we should compromise next fall, only going back a half-hour and keeping the clocks there for good.
Sounds good to me.
If we are to continue with this folly, how about some ground rules:
- All owner's manuals in cars have to be clear about setting the clock. Even though this happens every six months, I always draw a blank on how to set the clock in mine and my wife's cars. By the time I page through the owner's manuals to find out how to re-set the clock, six months have passed again. Maybe the clocks could be automatic, like our computers.
- All of us - or at least men - should be allowed a 60-minute nap the Sunday after we lose the hour. To be fair, when we can the hour in the fall, women can use the time to bake a cake for us.
In the fall, you gain a precious hour of sleep but have darkness fall early through an already dismal time of year.
Now, in the spring, we lose that hour of sleep.
Why not just leave it alone?
Or we could keep the extra of daylight, which would perhaps amount to a small but substantial energy savings, could we not?
I heard it is also mentioned that we should compromise next fall, only going back a half-hour and keeping the clocks there for good.
Sounds good to me.
If we are to continue with this folly, how about some ground rules:
- All owner's manuals in cars have to be clear about setting the clock. Even though this happens every six months, I always draw a blank on how to set the clock in mine and my wife's cars. By the time I page through the owner's manuals to find out how to re-set the clock, six months have passed again. Maybe the clocks could be automatic, like our computers.
- All of us - or at least men - should be allowed a 60-minute nap the Sunday after we lose the hour. To be fair, when we can the hour in the fall, women can use the time to bake a cake for us.
posted by Gordon Glantz at
7:14 PM
10 Comments:
You can't do daylight saving time year round because kids would be going to school in the dark in the early morning for a few months which is a safety issue.
So what?
Gordon, Gordon, Gordon. I'm very discouraged by your attempt at you humor here. Why disparage women? I've come to expect more from you. You've broken my heart. Recant and put it back together again.
Tlees2 - going to school in the dark? Why not shorten their school day and not worry about the clock. Mother Nature could govern our school time table. Kids would love that. If we change the months the kids attend school would make more sense. The difference of air conditioning vs heating and also the highway conditions could be a plus for summer school.
In 1973-4 when Daylight Savings was extended because of the energy crisis the number of children hurt or killed going to school in the morning went way up because of the extended early morning darkness.
1973-74. A good year! The Flyers win the Stanley Cup. The Flyers win the Stanley Cup! The Flyers have won the Stanley Cup!
Hooray for Gene Hart & the Flyers!
Do you believe that Daylight Savings is dead, as the Flyers and Hart? Most parents would prefer the comment - use Mother Nature's Calendar or Summer would be great.
Use Mother Nature's Calendar sounds great...Sun Rise, Sun Set! Well to some extent maybe the long days of summer would be better... let's have a vote this summer so parents can adjust their schedule and vacation time for 2009/2010.
A young couple living in our neighborhood, trying to make a go of their marriage,but because of the long hours weeks on end that required trips to all parts of the US and Overseas decided to call it quits. This was a true mismatch because times have changed, not only the so called 9 - 5 Professional shift,that her parents had, but any time table used by businesses. The children suffered because there wasn't any family time and both parents suffered because of no time for each other - their friends were not even close to having the same interests. So, think how the children that are caught up in this type of home pattern - up early, hurry, hurry - to the bus. After school, do homework at a childcare center and then a rush to eat, bath and off to sleep. No parent interaction. Do you know what time it is? I think we need to have a parent that is there for the kids, no matter what time it is, and have one parent work to make the living and cherish the time he/she is home ... that would be time well spent... no matter what the clock says.
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