...and global variations of the clock-changing nuisance that ought to be abolished.
I hate it conceptually, and it throws my body clock out for a week or more. I end up doing approximate adjustments so every time piecdifferent time. And I haven't done most of the things. CBA. Carmen, Zerlina, Ulrica, and the video and stereos remain undone.
But the blog-comment of the week has to be on Zoe's
I always used to rely on the computer telling me about the time change too, but this year all our computers are confused. The Australian end-of-daylight-savings-time has been postponed by a week due to the Commonwealth Games, but no one told any of the computers.
We should have permanent Summertime. I was born in Permanent Summertime. We only went back to archaism so because Scottish farmers didn't want to milk their cows in the dark.
To which I reply:
- A tiny percentage of people live in the north of Scotland, of whome few are dairy farmers
- Cows don't wear watches
- Milking parlours have electricity
Meanwhile we are subjected to five months of SAD. I was going to cite RoSPA on the subject, but actually they advocate Single/Double Summertime, which would have undoubted benefits for safety and health but will still require us to change our clocks. Why can't we just accept that midday is when the sun is directly overhead and leave it at that?
In a global economy we could at least agree globally to do it all at the same time
And India is at half past when the rest of the world has the big hand pointing straight up.
