Rant 302 28/10/12 Subject: Playing with the time

Rant number 302

As of 2AM this morning - it was 1AM.... Or something like that. The reason for this is daylight savings, a pointless activity that none the less happens each and every year.

Each year, at about this time - we take an hour off the time to make it easier to farm - and to apparently make the roads safer. The logic to this is simple - if you bring the clocks backward in this way, it means that the mornings and are in lighter than they would have been.

As we all have lights on our cars and because it really messes with my sleep cycle etc - I think that it really is just a ridiculous thing to carry on doing.

The original reason for this was farming. In the days when 5AM was very dark indeed and you'd be out and about with a shire horse, a car and a couple of lamps - it must have been great for the day to be brought forward to make things lighter. Now adays though, most farm machines have enough lights on them to put a football pitch to shame - so surely we don't need this antiquated tradition any more.

I think that we often fall into this trap in the modern world. We stick to traditions like glue but without really examining the reasons behind them. It's like tenacious ideas are the most worthwhile - which is really quite a fallacy.

I just don't understand why we still have to play around with the clocks in this way. Surely it must cost money to be changing things around in this way every year. Money that could be better spent on - I don't know, research into a new type of cucumber or something.

I don't even know what time it is properly any more. Is it 6.30 - 7.30 or 3 in the morning... Who bloody knows.

Rant over.