Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:34 am
The time changed last night. I don't know why they this. They claim it has something to do with saving time or making more daylight or something, but that makes no sense. Moving the little hand on your clock forwards or backwards does not make the days longer or shorter. The length of a day is determined by the spin of the earth. The amount of daylight is determined movement of the earth around the sun, the tilt of the earth, and what latitude you live at. It has nothing to do with where the hands of your clock are set.
Twice a year they make us change the clocks though. Spring forward, fall back. It screws up people's internal clocks so that accidents go up and productivity goes down, but that's okay because we're saving daylight. Except we're not saving daylight, we're lying to ourselves abou how much daylight there is.
The only province in Canada that has this figured out is Saskatchewan. They used to change the clocks, but realised that it was stupid so they stopped doing it. For half of every year they are on the same time as Manitoba, and for half they are on the same time as Alberta. It works well.
Of course now some goombah in Yorkton, Saskatchewan wants to start changing the clocks again. He's obviously a loon...a politician who didn't have a real issue to deal with so he had to create one. He was pissed off that for half the year he was missing coffee with his buddies across the border in Manitoba.
Of course, being from Yorkton, he isn't smart enough to realise that Saskatchewan is right and the rest of the country is wrong. He should, if he wants to drink coffee with his buddies, be encouraging Manitoba to stop the madness of the time change. Instead he's trying to get Saskatchewan to join the rest of the country in practicing the art of self deception.
We need to stop changing our clocks in the rest of Canada. Lock it in one way or the other, it doesn't matter which, and accept that we cannot control the spin of the earth or its yearly trek around the sun. Let's all join the fine people of Saskatchewan in beig right on this.
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