Every year, I am both extremely entertained and utterly mystified by the entire country's rather arbitrary decision to just add or subtract an hour. Especially when other countries may or may not also observe daylight savings... but even if they do, you can bet that they don't change their clocks on the same day. So there's that awkward window of time when, even though Paris is six hours ahead of New York, sometimes it's seven hours... and sometimes it's five. Baffling. I feel like this is how giant international misunderstandings escalate into global crises.
It also provides context for hilarious incidents like this blurb from the West Wing.
In conclusion: happy end of daylight savings, everyone. If you still have a timepiece that isn't plugged into the internet, set it back, because it now officially gets dark really early. Wonderful.
Unrelated: I'm now just 6/7 for my daily blog posts. Shame on me.
No comments:
Post a Comment