If Caulfield was so smart, he would know that we don’t actually add an hour. We don’t have the power to do that. The class is actually just starting an hour later.
Actually, Caulfield will show up an hour late in April of the next year, when clocks are set an hour ahead, and claim he is cashing in that hour early he is supposedly saving today.
When I was younger I worked all kinds of crazy shifts and wasn’t too put out by it. As I’ve gotten older I find time shifts to be more and more of a PITA. While I was still working I would have killed to get rid of DST. I, for one, need that daylight in the morning (and it’s good for kids going to school too). Now that I no longer work it’s not as big of a deal but I’d still rather see DST go than see it stay. If you want an extra hour in the evening then YOU can get up an hour earlier. Don’t make the rest of us suffer for your convenience.
“#2: You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe Daylight Saving Time.” —Dave Barry, syndicated humor columnist, “25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years” (1997)
Time is money, I’m told, and I get it. But I don’t. Time and money are not as equal as all that, in the sense that you can save money but I don’t think you can really save time.You can only not waste it. You certainly can’t bank time (just about every veteran marathoner has learned that the hard way). Time comes and goes at its own very consistent and incontrovertible pace*, and all you can really do with it is spend it wisely.
And I don’t know if this makes time more like money or less so, but: As consistent as it is, you never really know how much you’re allotted until you’re done.
*Except in the final few minutes of a close college basketball game. Then time is, like, Einsteinian-class relative.
Ceeg22 Premium Member over 6 years ago
Too bad, kid. The choice is not yours.
Ignatz Premium Member over 6 years ago
If Caulfield was so smart, he would know that we don’t actually add an hour. We don’t have the power to do that. The class is actually just starting an hour later.
MartinJohansson over 6 years ago
Caulfield… Sometimes you annoy the hell out of me.
William Bednar Premium Member over 6 years ago
Actually, Caulfield will show up an hour late in April of the next year, when clocks are set an hour ahead, and claim he is cashing in that hour early he is supposedly saving today.
pumaman over 6 years ago
If my last name was Zone, I’d name my kid Time. And the other one Twilight.
Reaven over 6 years ago
Would love to get rid of daylight savings by this point. Any benefits I can think of are countered by the fact that we have lights in modern times.
sml7291 Premium Member over 6 years ago
When I was younger I worked all kinds of crazy shifts and wasn’t too put out by it. As I’ve gotten older I find time shifts to be more and more of a PITA. While I was still working I would have killed to get rid of DST. I, for one, need that daylight in the morning (and it’s good for kids going to school too). Now that I no longer work it’s not as big of a deal but I’d still rather see DST go than see it stay. If you want an extra hour in the evening then YOU can get up an hour earlier. Don’t make the rest of us suffer for your convenience.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 6 years ago
“#2: You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe Daylight Saving Time.” —Dave Barry, syndicated humor columnist, “25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years” (1997)
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
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Time is money, I’m told, and I get it. But I don’t. Time and money are not as equal as all that, in the sense that you can save money but I don’t think you can really save time.You can only not waste it. You certainly can’t bank time (just about every veteran marathoner has learned that the hard way). Time comes and goes at its own very consistent and incontrovertible pace*, and all you can really do with it is spend it wisely.
And I don’t know if this makes time more like money or less so, but: As consistent as it is, you never really know how much you’re allotted until you’re done.
*Except in the final few minutes of a close college basketball game. Then time is, like, Einsteinian-class relative.
onespiceybbw over 6 years ago
Only the government believes that you can make a blanket longer by cutting off one end and sewing it to the other end.