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Thursday, January 05, 2006
As I slowly emerged into consciousness, a thought came to me of what this country really needs:
an extra hour somewhere between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.
Here's how to pull off this wonder: Each night, before bed, we should set our clocks back one hour.
In an earlier age, this would not have been so workable. Reliant on candlelight and the light of the sun, our options were limited. But in this day and age, there are any number of stores and offices you might find yourself in where the only light is artificial. Nature may control our biorhythms and offer the cheapest light source out there, but we're no longer so dependent upon this.
The sticklers out there may assert that you can't just add an hour. It's true that an adjustment would have to be made for the 15 days a year we would lose. I say we take them out of February. It's usually the coldest, and often the greyest, of months. Let's halve it. (For those who are concerned, I would move Black History Month to January.) The remaining five hours could be subtracted from the first Tuesday in November, allowing us, every other year, to get the elections over with that much sooner.
Just a thought.
posted by gbarto at 8:41 AM
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