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. 🙂
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