Daylight Saving Time

Once again, in a little shy of two weeks, the time change kicks in to disrupt things.  Not everyone changes their clocks every time there’s supposed to be a change.  Any manually operated clock in the nest underfoot stays on Daylight time year ’round.  It leads to some confusion, of course, but it’s better than the switching.

On the plus side, come the switch to Standard time, one is an hour early for everything.  Eventually along the way there is a sort of sagging into Standard time, but ultimately energy needed to do everything an hour earlier in the spring isn’t as enormous, a point important to those old and slow due to age or infirmities.

It has to be remembered, clock time isn’t sun or solar time.  Few people actually operate on sun time.  Neither time designation is “natural,” that is, like going to bed at sundown, regardless of what’s on the clock.  What clock time does do is more or less organize the 24 hours considered a day into manageable time frames.

Trees that live to be 400 years old operate on solar time.  Possibly the closer one can get to that, the better off he/she might be; but, there is something to be said for time frames as well.  It would probably help a lot, however, especially with things and creatures like domesticated animals if there was no attempt to “save.”

Peace to those who like routine.  🙂

Presidents Day, 2019

Generally speaking, Presidents’ Day, 2019, now about over, amounted to about as much as Presidents’ Day in some other years, and which ones are unknown at the desk at hand as there’s really not much reason to try to fish out which ones were different to some remarkable extent.  However, it might be something to do sometime.

It’s a day for no mail delivery.  Other people besides the mail person also get the day off, which is a nice, comfortable thing in the winter and may even save some lives of people who would be driving on icy roads.  With people that have jobs in places like banks at home or somewhere besides where they work, it’s a hardship for some.

It’s also a day for advertising people to attach a name to some things they want to sell, like adding a little food coloring (red and blue) to icing on donuts would make them “President’s Day donuts” which would be found “in the bakery department today only.”  There are obviously other angles as well — price, fifty Lincoln-head coins each.

Discussing the day can also be a teaching tool for elementary school educators trying to get across some turning point in national history (like the Civil War).  Distant relatives of presidents can mention how they’re related.  Even if there’s no practical use for the day, it doesn’t hurt to have it just so people recall there’s been a variety.

It’s hoped everyone had a good day.  🙂