Time, Time, Time

This past weekend we had an hour stolen from our lives.

"Wait!" you say. "That hour wasn't stolen, only borrowed. We'll get it back in the fall."

You're right. It was only borrowed. However, remember that "time is money." When money is borrowed, it is repaid with interest.

That means that in the fall we should set our clocks back one hour and fifteen minutes (including interest). Let's see, in four years -- that is in the next leap year -- we'll have moved back in time one hour. Then daylight savings time will get us back to real solar time. Maybe by then the nimnuls who voted this extension of daylight savings time will realize the stupidity of their action and do away with daylight savings time altogether.

The rationale for daylight savings time was that it would save energy. In reality we just burn the candle from the other end. If you want to have more daylight after work, go to work earlier!

Until then, let's just get our hour back with interest this fall. All in favour say "aye."