Last year I read Sieze the Daylight in an attempt to learn more about Daylight Saving time
It was interesting but did not really make me a daylight saving believer. It did make me think a lot about how strange it is we have portioned time into hours and minutes without care for what type of hours or minutes they are. Why does the sun set at 10pm in the summer and 4pm in the winter? Why did I chose to live in Wales while there are lots of other places for more realistic sun rise and sun set times? The book had a lot of stories about people getting hit by trains due to daylight saving. I'm not sure that's a huge plus.
I am still not a fan of changing our clocks. I am a fan of getting up earlier when the sun is out earlier, but I'm also a fan of sleeping later when the sun isn't up, which doesn't really work with modern life.
Sunday was the return to British Standard Time. This has not gone well for me. I like to wake up without an alarm clock. I like to say “self, we have a breakfast date tomorrow and you need to get up at 5:30.” I did exactly that and woke up at 4:30 today, which would have been 5:30 on Saturday. This is why I'm not a fan of changing time. I’m giving myself a week to adjust before I get too annoyed, but no wonder everyone suffers from heart attacks when the clocks change.
Today is my non working day. This morning we are hopefully having a play date, depending on the state of the little. Isaac is still asleep and it’s approaching 6pm so hoping he might be starting to adjust to the new time?
(They woke up a minute later)
This evening is writing club. I also need to do some stretching today. Tuesday off work is great, but I really get “nothing” done when I have all day with the kids. I know that’s not an ideal framing, because I get the fun/challenge of a day with the kids, but I would love some better kid/work/house split where I got kid time and house time and work time in smaller portions.
Our life is lived in hours but diminishing return on enjoyment is legit.
I've never heard of that book, but I am interested in the history of Daylight Saving. There's been a lot of talk of ending it in the US, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
ReplyDeleteI kept hoping they would remove it here... lots of talk about it, but it seems the status quo is strong. The book wasn't great but I wanted to learn more about DST, I feel like I did learn more and from the book and also that there's not really that much to learn about it.
DeleteThe concept of time and how we measure it and chop it up into blocks is interesting, isn't it? Especially when we throw a human construct like DST in the mix.... how did people organize their time when there were no clocks?
ReplyDeleteP.S. It's nice to meet you, Rachel, and I am excited that you're joining NaBloPoMo this year and I added your name/blog to the list :)
Before standardized time every city had their own time based on the sun - I learned this from the book. So train arrival and departure times had to be shown as +4 or -6 depending on what the city to city time difference was!
DeleteLovely to meet you too and looking forward to following your NaBloPoMo posts :-)
If you're interested in time, have you read 4000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman? He has some interesting observations!
ReplyDeleteWhen my kids were little I HATED changing the clocks back and forth. It just screws everything up. Now I like turning them back, but not forward (ha.) In the US we turn them back this Sunday.
I really liked 4,000 weeks but I also like everything by Laura Vanderkam - When I started reading books about time I realized they were mostly written by men. A combination of Vanderkam and Eve Rodsky made me realize that even how we think about time is different between men and women... anyways that's a bit of a tangent here.
DeleteI'm glad to hear I might like time changes again someday, I've got a 2 and 4 year old... both awake now at 6am. akk.
Thanks for coming to my blog - good luck with your time change on Sunday!
I never really struggled much. with day light savings to be honest. And i find the concept somehow fun. It marks the change of season and for me it always indicates to me its time to slow down.
ReplyDeleteHowever I have to admit that this year around I actually feel the effects a bit as i wake up even earlier than usual. But then, when I look at the sun its rather consistent. Interesting book. I am intrigued to have a closer look.
I never really struggled much. with day light savings to be honest. And i find the concept somehow fun. It marks the change of season and for me it always indicates to me its time to slow down.
ReplyDeleteHowever I have to admit that this year around I actually feel the effects a bit as i wake up even earlier than usual. But then, when I look at the sun its rather consistent. Interesting book. I am intrigued to have a closer look.