Sunday March 14 is the second Sunday in March, so Americans are directed to twist their clocks forward by an hour, into a long summer of Daylight-Shifted Time.
See our web page about this rule, its history, and the arguments against it.
I added to the page this picture of the mad March Hare, from Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Maybe I shouldn’t disclose my feelings about the clock-twisting so early; do you think the picture should be inserted at a later point? And do you think it should be smaller?
Literary criticism department postscript
There was a bit more I had intended to say about the fallibility of poets, but forgot, so I’ve slipped it in. It’s about the albatross in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” and is almost at the end.
And I’ve rewritten my dissection of the phrase structure of “Ozymandias” – top down instead of bottom up. It’s clearer that way, though you may not want to stagger through it again.
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Sometimes I make improvements or corrections to a post after publishing it. If you click on the title, rather than on ‘Read more’, I think you are sure to see the latest version.
This weblog maintains its right to be about astronomy or anything under the sun.
Americans in general like to mess with anything natural. Natural day/night progression has worked for eons. That humans believe they can improve on it speaks volumes about why many humans thing the natural world is somehow flawed.
Well, I for one am glad that daylight savings time is finally here ~ now I can more easily see the morning planets without having to get up so early LOL!
You ARE getting up earlier.
Here’s Senator Wyden’s email contact:
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/contact/email-ron
He’s from Oregon, where, at least, they are right in the middle of their appropriate time zone.
A lot of justified complaining comes from locales that have been crammed into the west end of the Eastern Time Zone.
I ask … should the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan be on the same clock time as the eastern shores of Maine?
There’s a reason the Eastern Zone far exceeds in width what ought to be its allotted 15 degrees of longitude.
Everyone who possibly can wants to be doing business at the same hours as New York City and Washington DC.
my houseplants just can’t wait for that extra hour of sunlight in the morning.
What they’re waiting for is for you to learn from them and get up when the sun does.
For animals and plants solar noon IS noon … every day of the year.
They’re not troubled running railroads!
Hello Guy,
This was the lead editorial in this morning’s print edition of The New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/opinion/daylight-saving-time.html?searchResultPosition=1
If you want to weigh in on the matter better do it soon – I pay the NYT a ton(ne) to get my (print) news a day later than the digital subscribers!
I do want to weigh in, by writing to Senator Ron Wyden, but I don’t know how to get his email address. Can you help me>
Sorry if this reply comes to you twice – GMail is as confusing as Daylight Twisting Time.
wyden.senate.gov is his website and there’s a contact button.
Indeed. We have three more weeks of daylight saving to endure before it ends on Sunday 4 April. It’s now completely dark when I’m getting up in the morning. I’m counting down the days until it finishes.
I read the link to your previous article too. A couple of years ago, there was a kerfuffle in the Irish Times about this with a particularly informative letter by Brendan Halpin at
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/have-your-say-on-daylight-saving-time-1.3713560
He espouses further at
http://teaching.sociology.ul.ie/bhalpin/wordpress/?p=529
Fascinating map here:
http://teaching.sociology.ul.ie/bhalpin/dst/primary.html
Total agreement on Daylight Savings Time. it needs to be abolished.
Mar 10, 2009 · When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said… ‘Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.’ ….republicoflakota.com You may update the references to various peoples to today’s politically correct vernacular to suit your proclivities, but the turth is not thereby changed.