The 2012 Doomsayers can come up with some pretty crazy ideas, most of which have no basis in reality. But us normal everyday folk travel through time twice a year. Today is one of those days where the government (the US government, in most states) mandates that we travel backwards in time one hour.
Yes, I know that we're not traveling backwards in time. We're merely taking one hour from March and shoving it into November. The purpose of such a thing was to give farmers more hours of daylight to work in the fields in the summertime. I figure it would be easier if they just did everything an hour later. We're not "saving" any daylight. We're just fiddling with the clocks; creating chances for people to show up for work at the wrong time twice a year.
I don't find it annoying, but I do find it useless. I read a quote, and I can't remember who it was by, nor can I remember the exact quote, so I'll do my best (and if anyone knows who said this, let me know): "How strange that the government thinks they can cut off the top of the blanket, and sew it to the bottom of the blanket, and think that they have a longer blanket."
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