Sealion II

Roscivs is my brother-in-law, the one in Seattle. His constancy is a great rebuke to me, as he posts every day, like clockwork.

That simile is a segue designed to bring us to today's topic, which is, the savings of daylight time. In a way it's a remarkably stupid idea, because, the sun is not paying any attention to your stupid clock.

In a way it's quite brilliant, because people are, in fact, paying attention to your stupid clock, and to all the other stupid clocks in the world, because we made them and we want them to be useful. Plus, we can do something about what the clock says, and not about when the sun comes up. Plus, we are all incredibly screwed up by the advent of excellent, cheap artificial lightning (it is still dark outside as I write this) and largely insist on going to bed well after it gets dark, and therefore getting up well after it gets light, even though this is probably wreaking havoc on our nervous systems in some subtle yet awful way, so we have not really been paying attention to the poor old sun for some time now.

So to speak.