Humans keep trying to twist time to meet their needs instead of just following the sun. As a result, tonight is the night that St. Paul clocks should be change to "fall back" one hour. The official time change is at 2:00 AM Sunday morning, but most of us will run around our houses tonight making the change before bedtime.
Let's see now. If it's 10:00 PM now, fall back means I turn the clock back to 9:00 PM? It never makes sense to get extra sleep in the fall when we're just beginning the rigors of school and studies but lose an hour of sleep in the spring when children are worn out and cranky. The adjustment has to be made, however, so we can all get to the same place at the same time!
Talk about torture! It's been a whole week and my body still thinks it's on the old time. It's dark well before supper time and light well before breakfast!
Posted by: Bonnie Erickson | November 11, 2007 at 12:42 AM
Bonnie I knew the time was changing but put it out of my mind. Until I turned my computer on this morning and saw that I had gained an hour lol. I much prefer the non standard time and am waiting for the day when they stop torturing us.
Posted by: Carole Cohen | November 04, 2007 at 08:33 PM
Sometimes I wonder if life wouldn't easier if we abandoned this semi-annual ritual body-clock abuse. Changing the time is easy; getting the internal body-clock to adjust is sometimes challenging.
Jack
Posted by: Jack Boardman | November 03, 2007 at 02:40 AM