The time is out of joint, O cursed spite . . .

[jhetley]

Time for my twice-yearly rant about Daylight Saving Time and the removal thereof.  Consider it said.  Typed.  Whatever.

Anyway, I could see my jeans and sweater when I got up and dressed this morning, 6:30 plus/minus, so that part's okay.  But when the sun sets before 4:30 this afternoon . . .

Hey, if we secede and join Canada, we can go on Atlantic Time.  'Vantage number three, 'satiable Elephant's Child.

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Much as i hate, loathe, and despise Daylight Savings Crap, the fall hour is a relief.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I don't have a sense of where L.A. sits relative to "sun time", but we're way too far east for Eastern Time. A glance at the map says your time zone is narrower than ours.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

See my post from this morning, where I engaged in a bit of old time Celtic grandparenting.

[pernishus.livejournal.com]

Hey, if we secede and join Canada, we can go on Atlantic Time. 'Vantage number three, 'satiable Elephant's Child.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, monsieur Hetley," tsk-tsks Pernicious the Musquodoboit Harbour Farm Cat's faithful amanuensis and general factotum. "You have neglected to take into account the venerable precedent of Newfoundland... as a precondition to your admittance to the Confederation, and as penance for your various malfeasances and high misdemeanours since we last had control of your governmental apparatus (and a sincere thank you, by the way, for that 1812-14 series of customs duties contributions to Lord Dalhousie's Castine Fund, which in part pays my salary to this very day), we shall require that your time be set one-half hour earlier than New Brunswick's..."

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

And now you are going to have your granddaughter hanging around elf-hollows at midnight looking to pick up a boyfriend . . .

Probably a better neighborhood than singles bars, I guess.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

No deal. Half hour later, we might take it.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Could be--but I refer to the sense of time. In spring, I have that anxious sense of always being late. It takes me weeks to adjust. In fall, for just a few days, I have that nice sense of it being earlier than I thought, not later.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Oh, my "time sense" will be screwed up for weeks. Body clocks don't reset as easily as mechanical ones (or electronic -- hey, this computer did it automatically).

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Possibly. Of course if she takes to wearing a snakeskin belt...

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Endangered species?

[(Anonymous)]

I've been saying for years we need to be on Atlantic Time here in the province of Maine.

Kristen

[wcg.livejournal.com]

It's from one of the modern variations on the tale. Thomas turns into a snake and stays that way. Janet comes up with a novel way of holding him close to her.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I may have met that one, or may not. It didn't pop out at me, anyway.

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

And then they fiddle with when it shifts. It was bizarre watching kids doing their candy blackmail ritual in sunlight on Friday.

Being on the extreme other end of the Eastern time zone I understand the hate of early darkness. Here it will be getting dark tonight by 6pm but not as early as I remember in Vermont which is still west of you.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

>And then they fiddle with when it shifts.

Yeah. About half of the time-aware tech in this house switched *last* weekend, which meant that Wife's plot to tape some skating on the VCR flopped.

[wood-dragon.livejournal.com]

if we secede and join Canada

And it would be so much easier to visit. None of those pesky border crossings.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Wife and I need to get passports now . . .

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

Atlantic Time is already ensconced in the United States Code (15 USC 263) - so Maine could probably get moved to Atlantic time if it really wanted to.

Mind, I'd be personally irritated were you to do so - and it would result in the remarkably silly side effect of people having to reset their watches when rowing north across Gosport Harbor from Star to Smuttynose Islands, not to mention anyone driving north on NH/ME 113 through Evans Notch - but it's certainly not my call.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

As you say, too much commerce for a time change now. We have to do the Canada bit first . . .