The War on Darkness

[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.)

Comments

[gastonmonescu.livejournal.com]

We're on Standard Time now. Daylight Savings is what just ended. The extension will give you four more weeks of walking home in the daylight.

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

Huh. Looks like you're right.

Okay, that makes even less sense. Daylight Savings Time happens in the half of the year with *more* daylight as a matter of course?

[gastonmonescu.livejournal.com]

We're just changing when the sunlight occurs, making it last later into the evening instead of beginning earlier in the morning -- "saving" daylight instead of "wasting" it.

The extension to the first week of November will allow trick-or-treaters more daylight time, and keep them safer from traffic accidents.