Didja remember?

No, this isn't music or movie trivia... daylight savings time.  That semi-annual tradition of trying to find all the time-keeping devices in your house, car, even on my Vespa scooter... and changing them.

I really dislike "falling back."  No, you don't really "get an extra hour of sleep."  Like most of us, you wake up around the same time.  Unless you have a feline family member... and then you wake up when they walk on you in bed and say, "I don't care what the clock says, my belly is hungry now.  Right now!"  Rufus is more polite than that... oh, he walks on me, then snuggles.  The cat equivalence of passive-aggressive.  ;-)

Fortunately, the smart devices (computers, iPads, iPhones, and one of the clocks) set themselves.  We have a couple "radio" clocks (no, not the old clock radios from my childhood) that supposedly are tuned into the government atomic clock... seems they have no idea about the changes in timing we've gone through with daylight savings time; so they need to be set.

We went from room to room, setting clocks: the stove, the microwave, the coffee-maker, several weather sensing devices, and the myriad of clocks that we have in this small house.  Joan has two clocks in her bathroom; me, being the traditional one - only one clock in my bathroom.  One in the music room.  A few in the living room.  Clocks all over in our bedroom... which is a bit of overkill, since we rarely have to rise at any specific time.

I admit to having a fondness for watches; maybe from my pilot days or always being on a schedule.  The Apple Watches changed all that - they not only tell time, they let you know when you have a text, remind you to breathe, let you check weather, stocks, tide times, e-mail... and they set themselves for daylight savings time and when you go from one time zone to another.  Since getting the Apple Watch, my other nice watches seem... old fashioned.

I saw a meme on Facebook the other day...

Decades ago, Daylight Savings Time was instituted decades ago, with the idea that we'd get more work done during the summer daylight hours if we shifted "the time" ahead an hour.  At times, it has been promoted to "save fuel and/or electricity".  Maybe at a time when we were an agrarian society - these days, it is more of a "ritual" than any kind of "savings."  That hour you saved?  Yeah, you spend at least that amount of time resetting all your clocks... and they all take a different technique.

A "ritual" because it marks the beginning and the end of the summer season.  So, if you live up north, it is now getting dark around 4:30 in the afternoon.  Nothing like dark at the end of a work day to help "seasonal affective disorder" to set in.  I like daylight.  Sunshine.  Being at the southern tip of the country means the hours of daylight don't vary quite so much as in the northern latitudes.  I enjoy going north in the summer, and getting those "extra" hours of sunlight.  The real meaning of daylight saving.  ;-)