Standard Scenario : Had a To-Do list and not enough hours in the day today. Not just figuratively. Clocks literally jumped an hour ahead last night…at least the clocks that were paying attention. So that’s about half of them. The rest were sleeping…
If your like most people you enjoy getting that extra hour when Daylight Savings Time ends and are slightly perturbed that you have to give it back when it begins. Your free trial hour has expired. Give it up ! Now I’m not complaining , but shouldn’t that bonus hour come at the beginning ?
The answer is practical. The seasons advance, the days grow longer. Procrastination seems to know something about this and also advances automatically like the good clocks do. So now your not going to do the same stuff an hour later. It all makes perfect sense.
Our Summer Solstice here in the Northern hemisphere this year is June 21st. Ironically the longest day of the year starts at 4:24 in the morning. Wrap your head around that one. After that it’s all downhill. Or is it ? Every day thereafter we are one day closer to getting an hour back. By then of course we’ve all adjusted as much as we ever will for giving up the one back in March.
Some people don’t like to admit to enjoying the give and take of the whole thing but they would probably complain more if that one day of grousing at the beginning went away. Go figure. Comedians also enjoy having two extra pre determined events per year to wring some extra bits from.
So what comes around goes around. That hour comes back in November. An appropriate gift for the holiday season. A little extra sleep to tide you over until those Halloween candy induced zoomies wear off for the little ones.