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High Tech Daylight Savings Debacle
Daylight savings time. I really thought I had it wired this year. Instead I got busted again. Usually it gets late, and I get tired, and my wife and I don't think about changing the clocks the night before. Most times the trusty (and annoying) old cell phone saves the day, or the morning. Lets hear it for high tech! But this year I got burned by that same high tech. It seems I had purchased an alarm clock that automatically resets itself for the twice a year time change. I didn't know that of course, because like any self respecting man, I threw away the instructions that came with it. And I never set my alarm. I'm an insomniac who is always awake prior to wake-up time. But this year I dutifully set the clocks before going to bed. The clock on my bedstand was set one hour ahead, and all was well, right? Wrong! The high tech clock with unread instructions then set itself ahead another hour, I'm guessing at 2 a.m. So in the morning when I rolled over and saw 7 a.m. on the clock, I knew it was time to get up and make coffee. Problem is that 7 a.m. wasn't the old 6 a.m., it was now the old 5 a.m. So there I was, in the kitchen making coffee when the digital clock on the microwave caught my eye, or should I say poked me in the eye. I quickly realized my mistake. But by then it was too late. I had the coffee fixins in my hand, and going back to bed would probably have been as annoying to my wife as getting out of bed at the old 5 a.m. Plus, I'm an insomniac. There would be no more sleep on this Sunday. Won't somebody please fix this time change thing. Pick a time and stick with it. Yawningly yours ... Rusty 5 comments from 3 users
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posted by
sunnica
on Mar 11, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Very funny, Rusty....you thought you were ahead of the game, but you were, instead, REAL ahead of the game! Good thing it was Sunday. :) posted by
robin
on Mar 14, 2008 at 10:26 AM
You know, I don't even like the idea of Daylight Saving Time. To me, it doesn't do any good or "save" any time. I remember hearing something on All Things Considered about it and it doesn't seem like it does any good to change the time. It was something Ben Franklin started way back in the day, right? Crazy. Plus, it throws off time for people who are farmers, ranchers, etc. Morning Edition did a story on dairy farmer who had to get up earlier and it messed with the cows' milk production. I made things easy for myself this year. Last year when we were supposed to change the clocks, I just didn't change it. My parents changed the rest of the clocks in the house, but I left the one in my bedroom the same during this whole period up until now. Come the time to change last Sunday, I didn't have to do anything because it was already set. It worked pretty well -- only the first few weeks last year did I get confused and think it was a different time. I taught myself to look at the clock and change the time in my head instead. I thought it was pretty cool. My cell phone didn't change itself automatically. I thought it was set to do it, but apparently it wasn't, so I had to change that one. My iPod was still behind on time and I thought I was going to have to change that, but it appears to have set itself automatically when I hooked it to the computer before a roadtrip on Tuesday. posted by
sunnica
on Mar 14, 2008 at 05:28 PM
I like the time change -- both in the spring and in the fall. I have no idea why. It just always seems that when it's time to change the time, I am ready for a change -- ANY change. And the time changing is change enough for me. :) posted by
rustman
on Mar 16, 2008 at 03:56 PM
I agree, Dana. Change is good. Change allows you to experience new things, or to see old things in a new way. But in a philosophical way, time really doesn't change. We only change our perspective of it by changing our clocks. In the words of that wise old sage, David Bowie: Time may change me, but I can't trace time. Or, to pose an age old philosphical question: Why did the nuclear physicist throw the clock out the window? So he could see time fly. When you look at life... and time... in that way, I think you can see just how much my aneurysm has affected me. Rusty posted by
sunnica
on Mar 17, 2008 at 10:09 AM
That is so true...haha. I live by the clock, I guess...so when the alarm goes off and it's still dark, that feels like a change. In reality, though, nothing has changed but how we set our clocks.
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