Daylight Losing Time

What a shame to lose a glorious hour in the morning

Here we go again with the stupid clock change. In addition to just being a stupid idea in an age of modern technology, it’s really a shame to lose that glorious early morning hour.

I know that right now the season is “standard” time. We just shifted out of “saving” time. But honestly this time should be called losing time.

Some “professor” (some jewish guy in Colorado) writes a study about shifting permanently to saving time being bad yada yada yada. Honestly I think it’s all BS. People get tired when it’s dark and wake up when it’s light.

Everyone has full control over when they want to wake up or not. It’s that simple. If people want to shift their start time in the morning at various points in the year that should be their option.

Forcing a clock change on the entire society is like using a blunt instrument to address something that requires finesse and delicacy. It’s similar to putting fluoride – a highly toxic industrial waste product – into drinking water. Even if it were a truly beneficial additive – let’s say the word: drug – it would still be an extremely stupid idea to put it into drinking water where the dosage is wildly varied and impossible to accurately control, something no sane physician would ever contemplate doing.

Even more, the entire idea of having time zones is stupid. It is borne out of an attachment to a number. Like “I wake up at 7 a.m. every day and can’t cope with the idea that it might be a different number.” Give me a break. Earth is one planet and should be on one time, period.

And again, time zones are a blunt, crude instrument. In a time of great technical precision down to nanoseconds, time zones are useless. To say that it’s exactly the same time at locations that are hundreds of miles away longitudinally is stupid. To have some type of crude system to equate times around the globe based on zones is… stupid.

And since I’m on this rant, I’m going to say that Earth also needs desperately to switch to the dozenal (referring to it as “duodecimal” is stupid – it’s literally using base-ten to reference base-do) counting system. One two three four five six seven eight nine dek el do. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ↊ ↋ 10

By the way, on Windows I highly recommend the extremely useful utility WinCompose which enables you to type a huge range of characters similar to ↊ (ralt + d + 2) and ↋ (ralt + d + 3).

On Linux you can edit /etc/default/keyboard and set XKBOPTIONS="compose:ralt"

# /etc/default/keyboard
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="compose:ralt"

For those who don’t want to go along with daylight losing time, I recommend to change the settings on your computer/mobile device to not automatically change to daylight savings time and/or select an adjacent time zone (one zone east of you) to keep your current time and avert the clock change.

If you are already in the Mountain Standard Time zone in the US state of Arizona you are lucky because you are already set.

For people in the Pacific time zone you can manually set your time zone to “Phoenix” or “Mountain Standard Time (MST)”. After doing this, just remember one thing: Every appoint you have in “their time”, a.k.a. losing time, will be an hour later for you. So an appointment at 13:00 for them will be 14:00 to you.

This will be nice because it will feel like you have an extra hour over everyone else. In fact I tend to like this so much that I don’t want them to actually fix the clock change problem 😀