DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

Okay so in April at 7am it is getting light & at 6pm say it is getting dark so if you lose an hour which is what happens when Daylight Saving Time begins and it begins in March or April even though you might think it begins in November because why would Daylight need Saving in the summer when there is plenty of light morning and evening but apparently it is light in summer that’s saved not winter we revert to Standard Time actually in November, Daylight Saving Time ends then not begins as you would think, it’s a little counter-intuitive at least according to my intuition, you kind of think it should start in November when you can really save money on bills and things and end in April when things get easier but the opposite is the case. I suppose it’s a bit like wealth. You save while you have it and make the best of it when you don’t or the way when you have money you get deals and when you don’t you pay twice as much for everything like mortgages, another traditionally hard thing to understand. Anyway in April if, I should say when because it does, when we lose an hour and the clock goes forward—another counter-intuitive thing because you don’t associate losing with going forward though in recent times maybe so anyway in April (it used to be March I think) you lose an hour, the clock goes forward so if it was getting bright at 7am your watch (yeah right who has a watch) your phone or your laptop or your toaster or whatever now says 8am when it’s really 7am so at 7am by the clock it’s really 6am so maybe not as bright as it was before Daylight Saving Time but summer is coming anyway and will iron that out. Then in the evening whereas at 6pm before Daylight Saving Time it was getting dark now 6pm is called 7pm and the 6pm on your clock means 5pm so it’s actually quite a bit brighter so you can say you can feel the stretch in the evening though the days are getting longer anyway as summer is coming as I said. Then the Winter situation is as follows, in November it is getting bright at 7am and when you gain an hour that is when the clocks go back—you know when you wake up and you can say Gee it’s not really 9am it’s really 8am I can go back to sleep yippee (you don’t have to get up for work because the hour changes on a Sunday, actually at 2am but I haven’t used that as an example here because things kind of shrink at 2am, like the options of what people do kind of shrink so if I was to use 2am as an example I think people would be saying why would I be sitting at the kitchen table in my pajamas with a pen and paper trying to figure out the time I’d be asleep at 2am for God’s sake even if it was the weekend) which again is funny because you don’t associate going back with gain (unless you go back for something you forgot which is not exactly a gain because you had it anyway only not with you) so when the clocks go back in November you gain an hour and the 7am where it was beginning to get bright is now called 6am and when the new 7am arrives that is really 8am though it is really is 8am actually because Daylight Saving Time is over in November and 8am is now 8am Standard Time, which is as real as we’ve got, compared to 8am during Daylight Saving Time which is really 7am. So in November the new 7am is 8am so it’s definitely brighter and you definitely notice it (I did this morning) and then at night the way it was getting dark at 5pm now 5pm is really 4pm except as I said Standard Time is realer time in a sense so 5pm actually is 5pm but it seems as if 5pm is really 4pm because of the change so you get some extra light in the evenings too but of course the winter is drawing in and the evenings are getting shorter at the same time as they are let out a little by the end of Daylight Saving Time but there is a little cross-over where we benefit from the difference if you know what I mean. So that’s basically it, that’s the story with Daylight Saving Time. Hold on, is it Daylight Saving or Daylight Savings? Does Daylight Savings Time sound right to you?