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2004-04-08 - 2:26 a.m. time won't give me time So, happy daylight savings time, everybody in the US. Except Arizona and part of Indiana. Or is it Indiana and part of Arizona? Hmm... considering I'm going to be in Indiana next month, I should probably find that out. But I digress. I hate the one day in the spring where we actually lose an hour (no wonder it got to be 4am so soon last Saturday night), but I like daylight savings time. I don't really understand why we still do it though, since we're not really an agrarian society any longer. I don't really get why that was supposedly the reason anyway. What do farmers care if they get up an hour earlier? They get up in the dark anyway, don't they? Oh well, it may be socially irresponsible of me, but I don't really care why. I like still having some sunlight when I get out of work for the day. My husband hates daylight savings time. He's already said about 300 times in the past two days, "This is WRONG. It's not really" (insert time here). I'll hear that until about September, when he'll finally get tired of saying it, just in time to change the clocks back a few weeks later. He's quite immovable in his opposition. All summer long, he refuses to re-set his watch or his alarm clock. He just adjusts his thinking to the fact that he has to go to work an hour earlier, be everywhere an hour earlier than they tell him, and plan to watch anything on TV an hour earlier than it's listed. And he tolerates all the other clocks in the house being wrong (because don't share this particular mental anomaly with him, and any clocks that don't change themselves, I change). By the way, if you're ever visiting me during the summer and you want to know what time it is, don't look in our bedroom for the answer. The only definitive answer you'll find there is, "time to clean this room!" While true, probably not helpful. My sister walked in there once and said, "It's a time warp in here! Which one of these clocks is right??" My husband's alarm clock - an hour behind (or correct, if you insist on living by standard time year-round). My alarm clock - forty minutes ahead. Because if I set it to the right time, I'll wake up, look at it, figure I still have time, and hit snooze until I'm late for work. If I set it ahead, it fools me just long enough to get awake enough to remember it's set ahead, and then I have to think of how far ahead, and then I remember it's 40 minutes and I do the math to figure out what time it really is, and by then I'm awake. What? I chose 40 minutes because in the rare case where I'm so sleepy I don't bother doing the math and just hit snooze, eventually I'll open my eyes and see that it's time for me to be out of the house. I don't know about you, but seeing the time that I'm supposed to be at leaving for work displayed on the alarm clock inches from my face causes me to scream "oh crap" and leap out of bed. By the time I remember that clock is fast, I'm on my feet and halfway across the room - and semi-awake. And I still have 40 minutes to get ready - which is completely doable. But back to the plethora of timepieces. My second, backup, wind-up alarm clock - ten minutes ahead. I was going to explain why but then I realized I don't really know. But it just is. My third alarm clock - whatever time it reset itself to after the last power outage, plus however long it's been since then. I never use it. Just haven't bothered to unplug it and retire it yet. The VCR is right. But she didn't know that. Taken as part of the whole panorama of chronometry, it looked like just another rogue.
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