{"id":2195,"date":"2014-11-03T23:49:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T04:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2014-11-03T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T04:52:09","slug":"saving-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2195","title":{"rendered":"Saving Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Daylight Savings Time (DST).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To bring you up to speed…… DST is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour.\u00a0 We do this so that light is extended in the evening hours.\u00a0 And as such…. it sacrifices normal sunrise times.<\/p>\n

Typically, we users of DST adjust clocks forward one hour near the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn to “normal” or regular time.\u00a0\u00a0 You know the drill….. Spring Forward.\u00a0\u00a0 Fall Back.<\/p>\n

So.\u00a0 Yes, we fell back on hour over the past weekend in observance of the good old DST.\u00a0\u00a0 But I ask you this.\u00a0\u00a0 Why on God’s green earth are we still observing this unnecessary practice?\u00a0 This is worse than Columbus Day.<\/p>\n

It has been around a long time.\u00a0 Too long, in my estimation.\u00a0 The New Zealander George Vernon Hudson proposed the modern idea of daylight saving in 1895.\u00a0\u00a0 For one, I just think he was some kind of a practical joker.<\/p>\n

The U.S. adopted this practice in hopes of conserving energy.<\/p>\n

But I have not cared for DST for a very long time.\u00a0 And I’ll tell you how long.<\/p>\n

I have my first memory of it when I was probably six or seven.\u00a0 I was learning to tell time…..\u00a0 probably there-abouts.\u00a0 Anyway, I would follow my Dad around the house, and “help” change all the clocks.\u00a0 And we had a TON of clocks.\u00a0\u00a0 He didn’t grumble or complain.\u00a0 Dad never, ever grumbled or complained about anything.<\/p>\n

I remember specifically asking him why we had to do this.\u00a0 And his answer was pretty comprehensive, explaining the whole rigmarole behind it.\u00a0 Then, at the very end he shook his head and said… “But it just doesn’t make any sense to do it.”<\/p>\n

Well.\u00a0 That was like reading the stone tablets.\u00a0 If it didn’t make sense to my Dad, then who the heck could it possibly make sense to?\u00a0 He was the smartest man on the planet, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n

And now…. as an adult, I have “read” the pros and cons.\u00a0 But the main reason we are “supposed” to be following this asinine practice is to conserve energy.\u00a0 Yet, every study I have come across…. has proven the opposite effect.\u00a0 We use slightly more energy as a result of Daylight Savings Time.<\/p>\n

We should just stop this nonsense…. for a number of different reason.\u00a0 But,\u00a0 the two most important reasons are as follows.
\n1.\u00a0 It is a pain in the butt.
\n2.\u00a0 It is a ROYAL pain in the butt.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, as you continue to find the rogue clock or wristwatch that missed the turn-back…. and you freak out up and down… because you are an hour late for an important meeting…\u00a0\u00a0 say a BIG FAT thank you to George Vernon Hudson.\u00a0\u00a0 He also invented the Whoopee Cushion and Fake Dog Poop.<\/p>\n

For now, we can’t change Daylight Savings Time.\u00a0 But we can change other things.
\nSo……\u00a0 In the words of my Grandma Kronenberger…. “Go Vote.”\u00a0 Today.<\/p>\n

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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.\u00a0 –Thomas Hardy<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I am the Eggman.\u00a0 I am the Eggman.\u00a0 I am the Walrus. – Polly Kronenberger (paraphrasing the Beattles)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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