Doing its best imitation of Doc Brown from "Back to the Future," our wild-eyed government once again declared that all of our clocks had to accelerate to 88 miles per hour in order to travel backward in time by one hour so that we can experience what it's like for Biff to squeeze us into unconsciousness with a choking headlock.
There is a group of people who claim that the "Fall back" half of the Daylight Saving Time nightmare is the better of the two annual time changes, some of whom actually claim to like this one because they think it gives them an "extra hour of sleep" These are the same people who think they get "extra spending money" every time they move a five-dollar bill from one pocket to another.
Meanwhile, the clock is ticking and - since it's noon when I'm writing this - I only have about five hours of daylight left to try to accomplish anything. It usually takes me that long just to decide what I'd like to try to accomplish. Because once the world turns black outside my windows, I've already dropped that day into a shallow grave, said a few unprintable words as I pat the dirt into a mound, then returned to my house for coffee or liquor or heroin or whatever the hell can sustain me until morning - assuming that morning will ever come again (no sure thing, now that it's in the hands of the bureaucrats).
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What are y’all carping about? I do the same thing with my bathroom scale and have lost 20 lbs so far. Jeez, some people!
ReplyDeleteI saw comedian Don McMillan’s take on this. Use it to our advantage. On Monday morning, just Turin the clock forward to Friday evening. Problem solved.
ReplyDeleteIf I ran the world, DST would be abolished. Also, if a city/state crossed time zones, it would be required to choose one or the other. And none of this Third World business of 15 minutes ahead or 30 minutes behind. That is all. ;)
ReplyDeleteSadly, the last strip truly encompasses the "thinking" of the Woke, the "progressives" and all others worshipping at the feet of the Climate Change Calf.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow in the Commonwealth of Virginia, will be election day with hopes a members of a few county school boards will be tossed out on their ears and that the Virginia Senate will be put back into the hands of the adults.
LOL. Our man Stilton has delivered again. This blog is about the only joy I have about this back & forth DST bullshit. I like when Noon is a bright anchor no matter the season; balancing the day at whatever length evenly between sunrise & sunset when the Sun is at Zenith.
ReplyDeleteAnd No! Lefty Lucy. Please don't make me fall in love with you.
Another stellar rant from one of the best-ever. To paraphrase, "Only a bureaucrat would cut 1-foot from the top of a blanket and sew it the bottom and believe he has a longer blanket." And thank you for not having to make us squint to see if there is in fact a motorcycle in the square)
ReplyDeleteYes, DST is a real pain. Here in England we did it a week ago and I'm still out of sync. I might move to Paris which is an hour ahead and hence be in my right time. But then, France is under the iron boot of the EU, which we have only recently escaped.....
ReplyDeleteBTW talking of honest Joe B, I'm laucnching a ceowdfunfing page to pay to take him and Kameltoe out. Hence President Mike Johnson.. Any takers?
Shalom.
The only DST I ever liked was a nice oily Drill Stem Test.
ReplyDeleteNot having to mess with DST is another reason that Arizona is a glorious place to live.
ReplyDeleteAmen Elbarto! We moved here 2.3. years ago, after 68 years in Commiefornia. We are 'Recovering Californians' and 'Yumans in Training'....We love our new Patriot stronghold...
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ReplyDeleteI will not turn all my clock’s back. I will then be living one hour in the future.
I greet you, people of the past. Your ways are quaint.
(Copied from a meme that could not be copied here. It is not from my brilliant mind.)
LMAO at the Michael Jackson joke. I think I'll get in trouble today when I tell it on my radio show.
ReplyDeleteThey already do change the thermometers, it's called 'adjusting' the older readings...adjusting to make them suit the narrative not the actual data.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time you could go back and search the 'official' records for a few hundred years...now, no more than twenty and even those get changed if needed.
Actually, I'm kinda surprised that "global warming" hasn't been used as an excuse to increase the time change. Why aren't we "falling back" 2 hours instead of one?
ReplyDeleteI know. Don't give them any ideas.
The time we're on now is the proper time, where the sun is nearest to the peak for your time zone. My 2-bits.
The only thing I have to say about "time" and Joe Biden is that time has not made him any better.
Speaking of Biden: As my Progressive friends point out how awful the GOP is, (and they're not entirely wrong) I have to point out that as of now, Trump is likely to beat Biden in most, if not all "battle ground" states by 10 points or more. Say what they will, but they seem committed to going into an election year with an incumbent that will likely be beat by the supposedly criminal Trump. And this is with a government/media apparatus that has done everything possible to destroy Trump and elevate the transparently corrupt and feeble Biden.
Just imagine if either party could cohese behind a competent candidate.
They did this to themselves.
Yes, get rid of DST!!!
ReplyDelete@M. Mitchell Marmel said, "Also, if a city/state crossed time zones, it would be required to choose one or the other."
ReplyDeleteActually, I know of several places that do just that. For example, the Idaho panhandle, which is most densely populated around Coeur d'Alene (which is now largely a suburb of Spokane, WA) is on Pacific Time whereas Idaho south of the intersection of the Washington State border is on Mountain time. Likewise, whereas most of Oregon is on Pacific Time, a large slice of Southeastern Oregon (closer to Boise) is on Mountain Time.
@Fish Out of Water, for too long a time, few people paid any attention to local elections that have a far greater influence on our lives, country and future as a country like for school boards. As a result, they've been controlled by Progressive activists for decades now. Now post-COVID that people have discovered what kind of crap many school districts have been shoveling at our kids, it's good to see people paying attention again.
Only a brilliant mind could segue from Michael Jackson to a mini-rant about DST. Awesome!
ReplyDeleteI can't say as changing the clocks twice a year bothers me that much, especially since I retired, but it would be lovely if we could just keep the clocks one way or the other. Here in NC, our congress critters want to keep DST permanent year 'round, which would be my personal preference, but apparently we need permission from the geniuses in DC to actually do that. So how do Arizona and Hawaii get to NOT change their clocks?
@Fish,
I'll bet the Dems are sweating it in Virginia. Imagine VA turning red again! I hope there aren't shenanigans going on late at night after the counting is publicly done.
@Colby: IIRC, AZ is famously independent. And Hawaii, being near the Equator, doesn't really get much variation in daylength...
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ReplyDeleteI don't have a problem with the time change myself, but I'd like to see it stop because it doesn't actually DO anything worthwhile.
Regarding Gropey Joe and Kamalatoe, I don't want to see them assassinated. I want to see a large rock fall from space and put them out of our misery. No questions about conspiracies that way. It would be cool to hear a booming voice from above saying, "I SMITE THEE!!"
I think originally the reason for DST was to give farmers an extra hour of daylight. It didn't actually create an extra 25th hour, did it? It just meant if they got up an hour early, they would still have the exact same hours of daylight. At any rate, that reasoning is long past its use by date. Time itself was quantified by nature and the movement of the planet around the sun. Now we have enormous amounts of lost productivity, which equates into revenue loss for this twice a year stupidity not to mention everyone's equilibrium is messed up for days. I'm with you, Stilton. This has been a thorn in my side since the idiots we vote into office decided to mess with time.
ReplyDeleteChanging times ain’t a problem if you don’t own a Subaru.
ReplyDeleteImagine a civil war, not over the left v right, but over changing the time twice a year, staying on "savings" time or staying on "standard" time.
ReplyDelete@ John the Econ said: The time we're on now is the proper time, where the sun is nearest to the peak for your time zone.
ReplyDeleteStandard time is from all I have heard or read also the time that our internal clocks are set too.
My stock doesn't care what the clock says, they need their care according to what the sun says. It makes no difference if I get up in the dark in the summer to feed in the morning, or if I feed in the dark when feeding in the evening. I say make standard time permanent.
@Shelly,
ReplyDeleteI used to live in a farming community and my father was raised on a farm. EVERY farmer I ever met gets up before dawn and works as long as there is daylight. They don't care what time it is. Only the gubmint would come up with a lame brained idea to "help" the farmers.
I think DST has in more modern times been justified more as being about industry, energy savings and public preference for more light in summer evenings; but I'm not going to research that.
ReplyDeleteTwo personal points of interest: (1) I went to a rural school in grades 6, 7 & 8. All three years in same room and with same EXCELLENT teacher; but only the 5th grade was still 8 month school term which was pretty much about farming. That was 1958. (2) In the higher & lower latitudes near Arctic & Antarctic Circles where length of day & night changes a LOT and back again over the annual cycle: Having NOON match with Sun Zenith and actually be mid-day seems much more important. At Fairbanks, Alaska & still not up to Arctic Circle by couple hundred miles, the length of day & night varies from 3 hrs to 21 hrs. And I like Summer NIGHTS in the Midwest as well so am consistent in disliking DST.
I’ve heard that a bill to eliminate the time change has been introduced in congress for the last twenty-some years, only to languish while they tackle more important tasks like declaring Juneteenth a federal holiday, for instance…
ReplyDelete@American Cowboy, correct. And if we were to fix the time once and for all, that is what it should be.
ReplyDeleteDST came about in an era of candles and when most work was still manual labor.
Now that I think about it, that's where the Progressive green agenda will be taking us. So perhaps we should keep it after all.
I live for your posts !
ReplyDeleteI say we should go the other way from Lefty Lucy's idea. We should switch to the Kelvin temperature scale. That would really upset the warmists ... a typical nice day would be 300 degrees! And even in the coldest winter it would never get below 0!
ReplyDeleteDoes daylight saving time go into an account at the Federal Reserve so each of us can enjoy the benefits when we turn 65?
ReplyDeleteIf I ruled the world, Daylight Saving Time would be year 'round and it would be TWO hours. Nobody needs daylight before 9 a.m. Them's sleeping and working hours. It's much more important to be able to enjoy some outdoor time in the daylight AFTER work instead of coming home in the dark!!
ReplyDeleteThe above Anon note was perhaps submitted by a govmint' employee; political party not clear but we can make assumptions; and who is in the dark at work all day. We can also see an "It's not working real good; so let's double down" mentality here. [grinning]
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