Dear Mr. Explainer,
We set our clocks forward one hour on March 13. So we lose an hour. But then we get it back on November 6 when we set our clocks back one hour? Where does that hour go for all those months? Does it goes to a parallel universe to visit all those socks that disappear from our clothes dryer? Did I even spell “dryer” correctly? What is the point of swapping an hour for an hour?
– Eduardo Salinas Albondigas, baffled as hell.
Dear Mr. Hell,
Daylights savings is kinda like investing in a certificate of deposit, you put in a dollar at 4% for 238 days to get back $1.0259039*. Same here, you put in one hour of sleep at 4% and get back 1.0259039 hours. So, in the fall, you get one day that’s 24,0259039 hours long. That means you receive an extra 1.55432 minutes of sleep that day.** Perhaps just long enough to transform you from an ever-the-edge grumpy non-morning person axe murderer to a mere under-the-edge grumpy non-morning person.
Check it out, the murder rate will plummet on November 6. Oh, and don’t travel out of America that day. The other countries do not get that extra 1.55432 minutes of rest and so, will be murdering each other with axes. And who wants to be around that?
– Paul R. De Lancey
Mr. Explainer
* = CDs that accept deposits of $1 and have maturity lengths of 238 are notoriously hard to find.
** = November 6 is officially still 24 hours 0 minutes long. All clocks and watches in America stop for 1.55432 minutes at 2 am.
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I so loved the math!!! Brilliant! First paragraph sucked me right in. I’m glad you are contemplating the important questions no one asks!
Daylight Savings Time. A conspiracy of Satan to confuse people, make people one hour late or one hour early for whatever they do on Sunday mornings and cause temporary jet lag.
California might be voting soon to repeal Satan’s conspiracy. We are a pious people.
Please ask the people of California to pray for us here in New York, that we, too, may see the error of our ways.
Only someone expert in plate tectonics could put together this post oh Comic Chef!
I’m not just another pretty face. 🙂
I’m not just another pretty face.
Dear Paul,
Love this post. Thanks so much for this lesson in enlightenment. I’m just not sure now where I’m going to get the time back I used for reading it. Maybe if I do my writing a little faster, I can save time and bank it to read your posts. Wouldn’t that be awesome?
Excelsior, Leslie, excelsior!