Springing forward with haste
Sunday March 9, 2008
Categories: Varia
Is there anybody else who forgot to set his or her clocks back [CORRECTION: I meant forward.] last night? A certain family headed by an absent-minded father I know of is going to be late for church this morning. Ahem....
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Well, it's an Orthodox church. If you're an hour late, they'll still just be getting started.
I was snowed in this AM, so despite getting up at the right time, still didn't make it. The upside is that I get about three extra hours to eat. My wife is cooking like a madwoman.
My main timekeeping devices are my computer and my cellphone, both of which automatically make the adjustment. That's a good thing because I never remember to do it on my own.
we could always just do away with the whole stupid business of daylight savings...just a thought. Most other places have either given up on it or never adopted it at all. They seem to be doing fine. Anyone know the full calculus of how much we actually save by doing this saving of daylight?
Anyone know the full calculus of how much we actually save by doing this saving of daylight?
I honestly don't know, but here's another question. If we do save from it, then why don't we just do it the whole dang year and forget about changing our clocks all the time?
"If we do save from it, then why don't we just do it the whole dang year and forget about changing our clocks all the time?"
Because little kids in the northern states and Canada would be going to school in the dark in the winter. We don't want those little ones to get run over just so some golf course further south can get some extra tee times in later that day.
Is there anybody else who forgot to set his or her clocks back last night ---
Shouldn't that be "set his or her clocks forward last night..". Remember spring forward fall backward. If you set your clock back last night you would be early for church by an hour.
Unless you were using "back" as meaning "back the way they were before".
Oops, my mistake. You must have been using "back" as in "back the way they were before" as the title of the post is "Springing forward ...".
"If you set your clock back last night you would be early for church by an hour."
Actually, he and his family would be early for church by two hours.
If I look into the (imaginary) future, I can imagine a few signs that the Republic has been restored:
1. The abomination of daylight savings time is abolished, as a foreshadowing of the Beast who "shall think to change the times and the law" (Dan. 8:25)
2. We're back on the gold standard
3. The Department of Homeland Security and the TSA are abolished
...
and so forth.
However, I suspect we'll see the Parousia before we see any of the above changes.
Lee
Well, G.O.M. beat me to it...I was going to say that if you're an hour late people will just mistake you for cradle Orthodox.
No daylight is saved (or lost). It's moved. The men behind the curtain can do that and there is more to come.
Don't feel bad. A good friend of mine, a newly-appointed deacon, goofed -- and didn't show up until the vicar had already improvised the sermon.
Everyone forgave him readily. We've all done it, one time or another.
Report suggests that DST increases energy costs for some:
http:
//online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120406767043794825-UOLcfJA8x9Gw9ozbCz77MiLmtaE_20080327.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top
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