Daylight saving time
I don’t remember, in school, having to learn anything in more detail than the mere mention of the fact. Yeah, and that it is easier this way, we have more light “to use”… I took it as such and it’s a clear illustration of the critical thinking that has been taught in Romanian school ever since: zilch.
Now, it’s that time again, we’re all loking forward to the summer, the bees are buzzing, the flowers are flowering, but I cannot help at being annoyed. This particular moment actually means one hour less in my schedule for the day. As it was not stretched enough following the last night partying and tomorrows deadlines.
Another annoying fact is having to actually gather all my wrist watches and set them right. Thanks god for the “intelligent” computer and phones and mobile networks doing it for themselves. Thank you.
(I won’t mention that I have accidentally found out about this last night, while drinking.)
Another inconvenient: my body has to cope with the fact that I have to wake up an hour earlier! What a pain in the rear!
What about living on a border of two time zones? Here - in Tijuana, it is now 4:02pm just one mile away in California it is 5:02. Maddening.
why wear wrist watches? i mean, there are clocks everywhere. why not get rid of the watch altogether and wear a bracelet instead. a colleague of mine asked another ‘what time is it?’ and the other replied ‘i don’t know’, ‘but you have a wrist watch?’, ‘oh, that one? it is working. it is just to show off’.
as for the one hour lost/gained, i always wondered if the hassle is worth the actual savings in whatever they though we save by this trick. i also wonder how could the people of the 13 century lived without it.