Against the fall of night...

[jhetley]

Crescent moon still shining when I went out for the newspaper this morning -- jump that back an hour tomorrow and get the sun again, but then we run head-on into our sunset at 4:30. Time for my twice-yearly tirade about them Washington idjits messing with God's clock? Maine ought to be in the Atlantic time zone....

Still morning

Frost on maple leaves,
sun rising and striking gold,
leaves fall fluttering.

Comments

[cinnamonbite.livejournal.com]

I hate changing the clocks back so it's dark all the damn time. Leave the clock the way it is!

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

But it saves electricity by optimizing the time that it's light...

(no, I never felt it worked either. Add me to the list of detractors. You've heard, of course, that they plan on expanding it?)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Sayeth the Old Man of the North, "Doth one a string longer make by cutting off one end and tying it to the other?"

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

If it doesn't make it longer, they can always try again a couple times.

They'll get it right eventually.

Practice makes perfect, wot wot!

[cinnamonbite.livejournal.com]

It optimizes now, when you fall back, the darkest months are even darker. I think they screwed the whole thing up. Solstice didn't even help (last year was the first time in my life I actually paid attention and took note). When the time change came, then if was lighter longer.
Do the spring foward and leave it alone.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

And what you end up with is a much shorter string with a lot of knots in it....

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Gub'mint as usual!

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

I am positive they screwed the whole thing up.

Except for the fact that I tend to be early, rather than late, it really was quite a shock when I first read Harlan Ellison's "Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman and I thought to myself "Wow, this guy's just like me!" and then I discovered the harlequin and I share the same first name: Everett.

I don't even wear a watch.

,Whole new one.....

[grace3636.livejournal.com]

Thought you should know.. Amazon shipped "Dragons Eye" today.
Earlier than promised.. good news.

[prophet-marcus.livejournal.com]

Love the Haiku. Hate the clock games. If it matters for a school or a business, they could shift their hours. Our local library does that, sort of.

I thought Maine was planning on changing time zones in a year or two?
It'd be weird for me with the border being half a mile away. Worse for my daughter who works in Maine.

Re: ,Whole new one.....

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

The time-zone bill made it out of committee but died in the legislature. I have heard mutterings about trying again.

Other states have time-zone boundaries -- sometimes even within the state. Upper Penninsula Michigan didn't do Daylight Savings Time, last time I checked, while the Lower Penninsula changed their clocks.

And whyinhell Eastport should be in the same time zone as Traverse City....