Pardon me but who decided to change the time to leap forward so early this year? I didn't beleive it when someone told me in the beginning of the week that Saturday night was time to spring forward. OOps, can't use that one anymore since it is not even spring yet!
Here in New Jersey we had a massive rain downpour all day followed by 60 -70 mile per hour winds Saturday evening. The lights kept flickering and I knew the electricity was going to go out at some point in time. Still when getting into bed to go to sleep, I set the digital clock at the bedside ahead one hour.
When I woke up to a cloudy sky I thought it was about dawn, my clock was flashing with a time of 4:05 am. Sorry, just couldn't be. The electricity must have gone out and the clock reset to 12 midnight sometime when I was asleep.
OK, so what time was it? I checked my cell phone. 7:05 it read. but does the phone reset itself or did I have to do that last fall. I couldn't remember. I looked up at the cable box on top of the Television. 7:05. Must not be right. How would the cable box know to move ahead one hour? Still unsure, I went into the kitchen. the microwave clock read 6:45. Now that does not make sense at all! If the electricity went off, I know that clock could not be right. Going into the office I check the clock on the computer. One computer read 7:10, the other read 6:15. Now we were getting somewhere. The machine with windows xp was one hour ahead of the windows 2000 machine. I think I knew what time it was. Then I thought, what about Grandma's old battery clock? The one from 1940's. Sure enough, going into the guest room the clock read 6:12. I walked over and set it ahead one hour. At least I knew what time it really was. Setting the clock for one hour change twice a year is a small price to pay for knowing what time it really was.
My computer was not set with the new earlier daylight savings time, and when I changed it manually last year it screwed up my calendar by one hour for all appointments until the real date, or is that wrong date, caught up two weeks later? Technology!
Here in Indiana this is only the second time we have had to do this since the seventies. I stayed up this two to watch my cell phone and atomic clock change!
Now we can golf till 10:00 pm
I lost 2 hours last night... one for the time change and the other for the hour I had to spend changing all my clocks!
To all:
Thank you for the comments. Yes the point of it all is that we think technology is savings us all that time but is it really? We keep trying to make things better by changing things. Some of the "old time" ways are still the best and ones we know will work, now and still into the future.