Sunday - March 09, 2014

Enjoy Yourself

“Enjoy yourself; it’s later than you think”

Daylight Savings Time began this morning at 2am. Clocks magically jumped forward an hour.

I’ve always thought this was a bit of silliness, and that it was done backwards anyway. Last week it was starting to get dark around 6:30pm, as the days lengthen. That’s fine. You want to mess with the clocks, shift it backwards an hour from that! Early Spring sunset jumps back to 5:30pm instead of forward to 7:30. And as the long bright summer days roll in, instead of dusk being pushed all the way back to 9:30 in June, it would fall at 7:30, which is about where it ought to be.

And why we’re changing our clocks on the nonsensical date of March 9 is beyond me. I can see doing on the Equinox, March 20. Which in the warming months is the Vernal Equinox. Which is also the first day of Spring.

Back when I was young, my university had a “stomping of the coat” festival, in which we all bid of fond farewell (aka “flippin of the bird") to glorious winter. Given that my university was in way upstate NY, they usually waited about a full month past the beginning of Spring for the snow to melt and things to warm up enough. And you wanted to stomp your coat at that point, because you had been living in that damn parka and those duck shoes, and carrying that ultra heavy duty golf umbrella, and wearing those corduroys and heavy wool socks, since late September. Plus we wanted to express the sense of nearly bitter irony that just more than 3 weeks remained from the day we could finally get out of our winter clothes until graduation. Damnation. The moment it got warm we all had to study like mad and then go home. 

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