Daylight Between the Ears

Daylight Savings Time begins three weeks earlier in the United States this week, and, like other acts of Congress in the past several years, this one is annoying the rest of the world. It seems that most countries prefer to wait until April to set their clocks ahead one hour, which means that international flights and transoceanic communications affecting these United States will be all screwed up for the next three weeks. The act was passed as part of an energy bill to increase energy savings - although it doesn't matter that we get an extra hour of daylight earlier in the year when so many office buildings keep their lights on practically all day long anyway - without asking folks to make sacrifices, like taking mass transit or buying smaller houses. But since global warming may cause spring to start before the vernal equinox in the near future, why not? :-p

Ironically, high temperatures for next weekend are expected to only get up to 33 degrees in the New York area. :-O

The law will be revisited in 2009 after a two-year trial period. By then we'll certainly have a record on how much damage this does to the clocks in our computers.