Daylight Shifting Time

Well, Daylight Shifting Time starts early this year, thanks to our omniscient Congress… Oh, excuse me, I was supposed to say Daylight Saving Time. (Admit it: you thought I was going to retract the “omniscient.”) But that might be a misnomer, since Americans don’t save much of anything anymore. It seems that everything is discardable, including lives… Perhaps we could call it Daylight Spending Time, since it’s supposed to provide more evening time to spend outdoors (who does that anymore with TVs, DVDs, TiVos, & laptops). Of course, you will be spending more time adjusting those clocks forth and back FOUR times this year. Perhaps the software on computers will be updated soon. But then, why didn’t they do it by now? Too much effort needed to work on all those OTHER malicious things, no doubt.

No, I think it should be called Daylight Shifting Time, since we’re just shifting the starting and ending times for the things we do. We could all start work an hour earlier. We’ll be doing that anyway, but just fooling ourselves by numbers. (Of course, we already let ourselves be fooled by the “official” numbers – but more on that later.) But I guess it’s better to let Congress think they’re finally doing something worthwhile and continue the control they love to have over our lives.

So don’t forget. Be a good follower. Don’t be out-of-sync.