The War on Darkness
Nov. 3rd, 2005 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenora_rose(Since this entire entry is me getting basic facts wrong, I considered deleting it, but what the hell. Here's yet more proof that I'm just as stupid as anyone, in public so nobody can try and make it blackmail material.)
Just an observation:
Daylight Savings Time is intended to benefit us all by pushign the human clock forward an hour, so that the sun appears to rise earlier - and set earlier.
The way my life works, I'm out of the house around 8:40, which is well past sunrise on all but the very shortest days of the year. I barely see the sun in the rush from bus to bus to work, but it's rpetty much always there.
By contrast, when I leave at 5:00, when daylight savings time does is mean that insetad of walkign home through the sunset, I'm walking home afrter sunset.
So Daylight Savings invariably robs me of daylight.
And now Bush has extended it -- and Canada as forced to follow suit. (because to have the clocks all skewed for that time would drive most businesses insane).
Yup, the War on Darkness is going just as well as the War on Terror.
(I remember a Rocky and Bullwinkle Cartoon where Captain "Wrongway" Peachfuzz gets installed as the perfect Oracle -- because the people know to do exactly the opposite of every single thing he says. Pity he ended up ruiling a superpower.)
Just an observation:
Daylight Savings Time is intended to benefit us all by pushign the human clock forward an hour, so that the sun appears to rise earlier - and set earlier.
The way my life works, I'm out of the house around 8:40, which is well past sunrise on all but the very shortest days of the year. I barely see the sun in the rush from bus to bus to work, but it's rpetty much always there.
By contrast, when I leave at 5:00, when daylight savings time does is mean that insetad of walkign home through the sunset, I'm walking home afrter sunset.
So Daylight Savings invariably robs me of daylight.
And now Bush has extended it -- and Canada as forced to follow suit. (because to have the clocks all skewed for that time would drive most businesses insane).
Yup, the War on Darkness is going just as well as the War on Terror.
(I remember a Rocky and Bullwinkle Cartoon where Captain "Wrongway" Peachfuzz gets installed as the perfect Oracle -- because the people know to do exactly the opposite of every single thing he says. Pity he ended up ruiling a superpower.)
