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I'm currently quite busy, writing a Bible study, planning a survey of a retirement home, researching an article, etc. So I'll be brief. The U.S. Congress has quietly passed a resolution extending daylight savings time into November. No-freaking-vember. If it's approved by President Shrub it will affect Canada, since the U.S. is Canada's largest trading partner. To keep business flowing, Canada will probably have to follow suit and extend DST here as well. Typical to Canada, the issue would be decided province by province, which likely means that some would and some wouldn't and we'd end up with a chaotic patchwork of "you're on this time, I'm on that." It'd be a mess. In any province that did vote to extend, people would be waking up in the dark...not just farmers, everyone with a 9-5 job. If we're going to plough ahead with this much discord, we ought to ask "why?" Why mess with daylight savings time at all? The reason - so that it's light out later, so that we turn our lights on later, so that we save energy because there's an oil crunch coming. No, no. Don't give up your Hummers, and don't drive a fuel-efficient car. Don't take a bus or a train or carpool to work. Don't live closer to your job, in a community in which you don't need a car to do every little thing. No, no. Instead of that, just alter time itself! North Americans will do anything, live with any amount of inconvenience and idiocy, so long as they're allowed to drive to get there. Sigh. "I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind ... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves." |
