I just read someone's reference to changing the clocks by an hour as "cutting a foot off the blanket and sewing it to the other end, and thinking it makes the blanket longer", and I love that phrase.

Yesterday evening, I tried to remember which clocks I needed to change, and which ones would change themselves. The computer clock changes itself, easy. The wind-up mantel clock must be manually changed, also easy. But what about the stove clock? The electric alarm clock? The car clock? The coffeemaker clock? I took a guess. I changed some I shouldn't have, I neglected to change some I should have, I got some right (aha!) Ended up with some clocks an hour behind, some an hour ahead, and some as Goldilocks would say "just right".

A memory: I was about age 13 or 14 when the US tried year-round daylight time, back in the 1970's. It didn't even last a year before being repealed. We walked to school in the dark, carrying flashlights or wearing reflective strips on our jackets. "But... think of extra daylight in the evening, yes?" Nope. Didn't make getting up and walking to school in the dark of night any better.

I would not mind at all just staying on standard time year round!

#DST #Clocks