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jhetley ([personal profile] jhetley) wrote2008-11-02 08:01 am

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

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.

[identity profile] cailleuch.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2008-11-02 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
>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.