We started last night at bedtime, and by noon today we have scouted out every clock in the house and reset it for Daylight Saving Time. (Okay, one clock in the guest room didn’t need changing. Must not have bothered with it last fall.)
We lost an hour of sleep, but the consolation is that we are one hour closer to spring weather.
Isn’t it amazing that in a country where we can't agree on a political leader, a favorite TV show, and the weather forecasters can't agree on rain or not, that we can all silently agree to set our clocks ahead an hour on the second Sunday in March and undo that action the first Sunday in November.
The idea was proposed by Ben Franklin some 226 years ago and enacted by Congress during the First World War. Since then it has been off and on, but today Americans love their extra hour of daylight during the spring and summer months to grill out and do yard work. They also love to complain about ther kids having to go to school in the dark, but the complaints wear thin after a few months days grow longer on both ends.
Wait, there's a VCR over my desk that I can't connect to a TV. Solution, paste a Post-It note over the display. Problem solved.
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