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It was a short week this week.  By an hour.  A leftover from the days when most people went out farming. California like 47 other states in the union switched to Daylight Saving Time this weekend.  Arizona and Hawaii do not obey this statute.

It is stupid.  It is a derivative of Standard Time Act passed by the US Congress a hundred years ago and amended several times to the latest format defined by Uniform Time Act of 1966.

The emphasis for this abomination is an apparent savings in energy use when measured on a national scale.  There is not any measurable change and it has been empirically proven.

For starters in America where you have 24 hour retail and now with online access to most any service any time of the 24 hour day there is really no sense of ear marking our calendar with this drivel.

All it does is throw people off and mess their natural rhythm.  It also leads to mass confusion since half the population overburdened with running their crazy lives forgets to adopt this change in their calendar and runs amok.

While I do not have the evidence I suspect more people feel ill, get into accidents and are generally stressed as a result of this ridiculous activity that has to be incorporated twice yearly to be on time.

The good news when springing forward (as this time is called) is that it takes a few clicks on the watch or a slight shift in the hour hand to get the clock to read the right time.   But wait six months and it is a nightmare to switch the time back an hour.

Oh the humanity!

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