DAY LIGHT SAVINGS

      Here we are on that special day that most of us like to bitch about. Time change!

     We've had day light savings time for a very long time. At first it was rather sporadic. Some areas or cities had daylight savings time and the next town or city didn't have a change in time. 

     Lately, there were very few areas that did not change time. The province of Saskatchewan has not changed time for a very long time.

    The rest of us just complain about time change. Some want us to go on standard time permanently. Some want us to go on day light savings time permanently. Then there's the province of Newfoundland Canada which goes by the half hour. 

   At one time, time change did not bother me. Now it takes me  few days to get used to the time

    This year there's a new wrinkle in time. Trump keeps saying he will change the time. What it will be changed to , we don't know. When it will be changed is probably not decided. So with Trump , time change is a moving target. 

    Some day, time change will have to be decided. It seems that too many people are unhappy with the spring and fall time changes. 

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

      Well, good old daylight savings time has rolled around once again. If daylight savings time was in a popularity contest it would get close to zero. 

      At one time the change in time did not bother me. I just didn't sense the one hour change ahead or in the fall when we went back to standard time. 

      However, now the time change does bother me. It takes a few days to get used to it. 

     Changing clocks doesn't bother me as the micro Manager changes everything but one and that's because she doesn't know how to do it. 

     Today most of us have a time device which is accurate up to the second. The old wind up clocks would stop and then you were in trouble. You might go a few days with out the time. Once we got phones we could call the central office and get the time.

      Dad always had a grandfather clock. Not the tall one but one that sat on the shelf. One of my brothers is the keeper of grandfather clocks. 

     It was funny going to the old churches as people arrived at times after the service started and sometimes long before the service started. 

    I now hope that we do away with daylight savings time but I don't think it will happen in my life time. 

    Right now I'm trying to fool myself about the time I should go to bed. 

Time Controls Us

     I read some posts and numerous comments on the change from Day Light Savings time to standard time last night. All posts and comments I read were not very favorable to the change. In other words there was a lot of moaning and groaning. I admit that the change in time sometimes bothers me.

     So I started to think about our control by time and I have some incidences and experience to go along with my idea.

    I come from a very rural background. I realize that an urban background has been tied to the clock for a long time. You can't go to work late.

     I am old enough to predate electric clocks. We had one wind up clock in the house. Sometimes the clock stopped because somebody forgot to wind it. Horror of horrors. What shall we do? We couldn't get time from the radio as time was rarely given and the radio batteries were dead half the time. So we just   phoned one of the neighbors to check the time.

    Grandma had a very ancient wind up clock that didn't keep time very well at the best of times. Her clock sometimes didn't run for days. In fact, she didn't know it wasn't running. Her life carried on and nobody missed eating or getting their work done. Since Grandma and Grandpa spent much of their lives out doors they were automatically aware of the time from the sun.

    I am retired. There is very little that requires me to be bound by clocks. I haven't worn a watch since the day I retired. I do use the clock in my car.

    So I think we're just tied a little too closely to time. We are slaves to time.

     Freedom is not knowing what time it is.

     And oh yes, you will adjust to the change in time.