Maybe people will be willing to settle for a rotating calendar totally unrelated to the sun if it means an extra hour every weekend?

(Actually, are they still living on Martian time? Maybe not, since it’s been two years now and the rovers just won’t die; that would tend to reduce one’s sense of urgency.)

Don’t you understand that this pernicious DST-always movement is just the Man trying to steal that precious hour away from you and never give it back? “Spring forward”? Gah!

Yes, and on that count, most people exist in a state of confusion, but without realising it. We deceive ourselves into thinking that some way of behaving is natural or right, and forget that it has implications. Extending the day through artificial means is one instance, having a clock that goes from 1 to 12 is another, having weekdays and weekends is another. Each of these disrupts a more sensible pattern of behaving, but we tend to forget that because we’re so distracted by the intricacies of having to keep track. Get away from it for a week or two and see how ridiculous it all seems upon your return.

sure, it is easy to understand. It just isn’t a particularly good idea, and it is usually sold on false premises.

I do hear, however, that the adjusted schedule for DST that the US is implementing is expected to be worth about 500 million to the golf and barbeque industries alone….so at least somebody will be happy with it.

We could tie it into the Global Fight Against Terrorism, so the think tanks and newspapers will all get on board. All the countries we don’t like are nearer to the equator, so longer days might make them too lethargic for mischief-making. A project to “Make Arabs Uncomfortable” would surely be cheaper than invading the entire Middle East, and if it doesn’t work, at least we gave it a chance before killing them all.

We all know the UN’s too ineffective and compromised to do anything about this…

Watch it, you’re venturing into dangerous territory: read DST Nocturne and tremble at what you would unleash.

In the end it did no good.
The world grew darker, and darker, and darker still.

We should shed a tear for the thousands of Standard Time Old Believers who died at the hands of the jackbooted minions of the parasitical State, of course. But let’s not pretend that DST is hard to understand.

That would be so much simpler and less confusing than just shifting the national clocks forward and back twice a year.

Years later I lived in Mexico. Since it gets light and dark at the same time more or less all year round there were protesters outside the Palacio Municipal on clocks-back day; the only sense in adhering to savings time lay in conforming to the US and why should people do that?

Now I live in southwest England where it’s commonly complained that savings time exists only for the benefit of the Scottish, and that road accidents are more common in England as a result of it.

I’m haunted.