Everyone’s favorite confusing, invented time-shift is here again: Daylight Savings. Except this time no one was able to celebrate the illusion of adding an hour to their day. When the clocks changed at 2 a.m. this morning, they hacked off an hour of our busy schedules instead. Now we’ve got even less time to cram in those last few pages of reading before the midterm, or the last few paragraphs of that essay we should have started weeks ago.
We at the Clog would like to lodge a formal complaint with whoever came up with the idea of messing with the system. There are loads of countries that function just fine without having to take down their clocks twice a year, so why do we have to suffer the pains of it? Sure, supposedly we’re given more daytime to work with (hence the name, of course). But does anyone really notice? The only benefit we see are those five minutes of jubilation when we realize it was 2:30 a.m. and it magically changed to 1:30 a.m. And just when we get used to that shift, we’ve got to adjust all over again. Madness, we tell you!
Okay, so it’s not really that much of a hardship in the grand scheme of things. But we thought we’d at least point out the ridiculousness of the fact that someone decided to change time. Who wakes up one morning and decides, “This system we’ve had going for the past few years or so isn’t working for me. I know! Let’s add and take away random hours to make ourselves feel better about it!” Brilliant.
Most people whip out their phone instead of actual watches nowadays, so there’s no real need to keep track of when to change the time. But we will still choose to whine over the principle of the matter. Like we said, one less hour of cramming that we college students desperately need!
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