1 January 2007

Janus am I; oldest of the potentates! Forward I Look and backward. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

January:

From the Roman god Janus, the keeper of the gates who was pictured with two heads, thus able to see the past and the future.

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They have monkeyed with Daylight savings time again. The new law has it starting three weeks earlier and ending one week later until they change the law again. We now will have Daylight Saving Time 2/3 of the year. The change was supposedly made because people like Daylight Saving Time. But I haven't met anyone who professes to like having to reset their clock twice a year or loosing an hour of sleep in the spring because of it. Since we love the advanced time so much why don't we just change our time zones so that we are always an hour ahead of solar time and be done with it. It would sure best having to remember "Spring forward; Fall back" and when to apply that rule. If that can't be done for some reason that is harder for me to understand than why we need Daylight Saving Time in the first place, at least start and end it at a sensible time like the first Sunday of whatever month the change occurs in.