can i just tell you how much i hate the ugly annual hoax that is daylight saving time?they lure you in during those first heady days of spring by pseudo-magnanimously tossing you an extra hour of sunlight, only to cruelly snatch it away just when--as everything's dying and the days grow cold and short--you need it most.
i'm always ok (or what passes for ok with me, anyway) once i adjust to the jolt of sudden darkness at 5:00 of an autumn afternoon here in golden southern california--but that first grim week or so?
bleh.
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I think in the ideal guttermorality world, we would go forward an hour in the Spring but never go back in the Fall...
At some point, we would be having breakfast at 8 p.m., but then the rest of the world would be catching up to guttermorality's internal time clock.
ah, you know me too well.
I hear that there are a couple of places in the world where Daylight "Saving" Time is a 365/12 affair. I'd love that but any time it's proposed, there are strident objections that children would have to go to school in the morning in the dark. Sweden, Norway, Finland et al anybody?
You're in SoCal so you're spared the worst of it. Around Dec 21, the light is pretty much gone here in mid-to-northern New England by 3:45pm.
will: i say screw the little schoolchildren--it's not like their pampered little asses walk (or, god forbid, ride their bikes) to school anymore anyway.
and dark by 3:45? suddenly the idea of autumn in new england doesn't seem so romantic anymore.
Hey, Mike - thanks for the hookup with the Gay Guide.
luis: de nada--i hope it gets the audience it deserves.
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