At 2 AM this morning, March 10,2013, we were supposed to advance our clocks by one hour, as it is the start of Daylight Savings Time http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/daylight_saving_time.shtml; http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/. Well, I do not get up in the middle of the night to change my clocks, and the last several years, I have just waited until Sunday morning to change my clocks, although we are advised to change our clocks before we go to bed. But I wait.
I am not sure why we do this. Of course, I have read and heard the explanations over the years, but it still makes no sense to me. I think the people in Arizona have it right, as they do not change to daylight savings time. They maintain the same through out the year.
Which totally proves the contrived nature of daylight saving time: If I travel from New Mexico, California, Nevada or Utah to Arizona, the official time changes. But nothing else does. My internal clock does not change. The position of the earth or sun does not change. The temperature does not change. The world does not change.
But, to be in synchronization with the world in which I live, I make the change.
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