I might have pontificated on the subject of what America witnessed yet again but that was in the past. The subject of Daylight Saving Time. What a timely topic.
Among the fairy tales man invented like Marriage, Religion, Money, Taxes there is one that is omnipresent and seriously unavoidable and that is Time.
The other fantasies can be avoided religiously if one chooses to but no sir not Time. It passes without you even knowing it and if you wanted to get something or from somewhere to somewhere you need it. Or at least a vague idea of it.
I just saw a movie about three US Navy sailors among hundreds flying to attack Japan in WWII who were thought to be lost at sea when their plane goes down in the Pacific. Turned out after 45 days at open sea these three made it back to a Polynesian island on a raft. They too counted time with a pencil and tally marks scribed on a life vest they saved. Their very existence was at stake and yet they found time to mark time.
See time is important. We tell that to ourselves and our children. Don't waste your time. Time is precious and la la la la. But when you think of the ways it is represented and mangled to suit modern life your head hurts. There is Zulu time. Military Time. Greenwich Mean Time. Standard Time. Daylight Saving Time.
Then there are the time zones. Chinese decided long back that they are going to stay away from all that nonsense and just labeled their whole country as a single time zone nation. Same for India.
We have egg timers, stop clocks, nuclear clocks, clock in Times Square, even Apple which hit a trillion dollar market cap decided it can mark time and make money doing it so they came up with what else - a smart watch - to keep smart time.
To me this is all time pass.
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