Some kind of space-time visual. Photo from web.
Every year on the first Sunday in November the clocks are set back one hour, returning the world to the comfort and consistency of Standard Time. But what were those last eight months of chaos? Who decided that we could just tell time to move an hour faster for three quarters of the year? I think it’s about time that we abandon this archaic system of time-meddling and allow our clocks to tick away freely, safe from the oppression of our tinkering hands.
The history of Daylight Saving Time (DST) is essentially this: some guy decided he could control the sun, and therefore time. As a result, he would then be able to control our lives. Let’s think about how DST works. During those eight miserable months we all go to bed and wake up an hour earlier than we have to. Why? Because the government said so? Because your mom reminded you to reset your alarm clock? Well those excuses just don’t sit easy in this cowboy’s saddle. I, for one, am not about to give up an hour of raging in return for an hour of mind-numbing hangover.
But those are just the practical problems with DST. The philosophical dilemmas are much more immediate. According to my understanding of Ashton Kutcher’s movie The Butterfly Effect, we are irreparably changing the true destinies of our lives every time we try to change how time works. What happens to that “lost hour” when you set your clocks ahead? It doesn’t just disappear into nothingness.
Somewhere in another reality you are using that hour to surf Facebook or completely blast your quads. But until we realize the absurdity of this system, you will never know whether other people commented on your wall post and your quads will remain completely unblasted. But things could be different.
We have the power to stand up and say, “Hey! Quit messin’ with my space-time continuum!” The power of Daylight Savings Time lies in the hands of the people, whether the fat cats in their ivory towers like it or not. This March, I say we don’t change our clocks. I say we show up an hour late because we know it’s truly on time. Will the aristocrats like it? No. But will they respect it?
Ben Franklin once said, “The immense stock of wax and tallow left unconsumed during the summer will probably make candles much cheaper for the ensuing winter, and continue them cheaper as long as the proposed reformation shall be supported.” What a stupid jerk, right? •
Dose this independent newspaper have a fact checker? It’s “daylight saving time”. There is no S after saving. This isn’t a bank where you stow daylight.
Totally agree, we need to realise that this is our time.
Do you even know who made the “daylight saving time”? Do you know what it’s designed for? Daylight saving is made to save the world electrical output. Save power and your money.
Really you need to do more research before you place something like this. This is not a goverment plan to make everyone pissed. It a plan to save the small amount of engery we still have. With out daylight saving humans will release much more engery then they are today. The earth produces a lot of engery but humans can’t contral all that yet so we must use daylight saving time to save the output of engery.
Daylight saving saves energy by having our clocks go back 1 hour. How? In the summer the sun rises earlier then in the winter right? If we remove daylight savings time the sun would rise about 5:00-5:45 am during the summer. That’s 1 hour you spend sleeping with the sun up. With daylight saving time the sun rises about 6:00-6:45 am. We’ll spend more time with the sun up with daylight saving time.
Ok, so how dose daylight saving time save engery? We’re just waking up earlier to see the sun. So what?
Right it’s because we wake up earlier to see the sun we save engery. We go to when the sun sets for that. Without daylight saving time the sun sets at about 5:15-7:00 pm. With daylight savings the sun sets at about 6:45-8:00 pm. We would turn on our lights earlier in the summer then we would have to without daylight saving time.
So by staying up more while the sun is up people would save more energy then they would have to spend while the sun is down. That’s what daylight savings does to help us.