I had the opportunity over the weekend to listen in to some Hoosierville natives discuss Daylight Savings Time. I enjoyed it very much!
I’m sure you wouldn’t be surprised to find that I’m a strong proponent of daylight savings time, and that your average native Hoosiervillian would be adamantly against it. After all, this is the first time they’ve had to observe it, and they don’t seem to take a fancy to change very well!
I came away from the conversation with the distinct impression that their bodies must be exquisitely and inextricably connected to every miniscule movement of the sun. So when you change the clock, it throws their entire systems completely out of whack! Those finely tuned instruments they call their bodies just can’t take it when the clock disagrees with how they feel. The amount of physical persecution it evidently is for them was nothing short of amazing to me.
They have my profound sympathy, be assured!
4 Responses
April 10th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
So Indiana is FINALLY experiencing Daylight Saving Time? It puts me in an incredibly good mood when we finally get to put the clocks ahead in the spring, in spite of “losing” an hour–and granted, taking maybe a week to get totally back in synch. I can actually have some daylight hours to see God’s wonderful earth and to do things outside after work!!!! Cheerio to the inventor of DST. And I would advocate going on DST year-round. In fact, in 2007 on a trial basis we WILL have four more weeks of DST than we do now. Definitely a move in the right direction. Anyway, I’d much rather go to work in the morning in darkness or semi-darkness if it meant a bit of time after work in which to experience life–and be able to SEE it!
I expect that many Hoosiers will learn to love DST.
April 10th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
When it comes to DST, the pain for a day or two is worth the gain! I would like to see DST year-round too. For those of us who get up in the morning and go to a regular job, the extra hour of daylight in the evening is a valuable commodity, but it probably doesn’t matter so much to those who have a more flexible schedule
April 10th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
Tom, It’s 9:45 PM in the Yukon and just getting dark. In about a month it will be midnight before its dark. Oh, also it will be light about 3:30 AM too. And yup, we have daylight saveings time. Several years ago I was in Tuktoyuktuk,(on Canada’s north coast along the Boufort Sea)in May. The sun just went in circles over head. Kids played outside all the time. If they got tired they just went inside and slept for a while. After just a few days there I could no longer tell if it was noon or midnight, didn’t know if I should be hungry or sleepy! And you should know….they have daylight saveing time!! I still haven’t figured out how they are supposed to get more day light by shifting the clock. But oh well, they still shift their clocks to get the best advantage of the evening sunshine. How nice that someone thought of that for them! But actually, I kind of like it too, John
April 11th, 2006 at 10:15 pm
The Hoosiers are mighty silent! Oh, I know why. They are all outside enjoying the evening daylight.