And so we have the biannual absurd resetting of the clocks once again. . .

midday, in real terms, will still occur when the sun is at its highest point, and midnight will occur twelve hours later, no matter what we might wish to pretend.

Courthouse clock in Wheatland Wyoming.

And yet somehow we imagine that we "lost" an hour, or that later, in the fall, we'll gain one.

Daylight Savings Time.  M'eh.

The biannual assault on the clock has been shown to be dangerous to people's health, result in sleep deprived accidents, and even result in more heart attacks than on other days of the years.  And for what ends?  None at all.

It first came in, in the United States, during World War One, but went back out thereafter.  Would that it would have stayed.  It came back in again in 1942, because of World War Two, and back out in 1945.  On April 13, 1966, it came back in by act of Congress, providing that states could opt back out.

There's been movements afoot to do so, but in an odd refusal to recognize natural time manner.  This last few years quite a few states, including ours, have thought about going to permanent daylight saving time.  That'd be better than the switch back and forth, but why not just go to permanent natural time.  With modern transportation and what not, there's plenty of time during the summer months to do whatever it was you were going to do after work, and that extra hour of sunlight isn't going to matter.

In fact, it never did.