Mar 08
Dr. Einstein – Paging Dr. Einstein
Cats: travels|When the clock strikes midnight tonight, is it really midnight? Or does time really shift ahead to 1 am.
Technically, it jumps forward. I know.
But metaphysically, what happens to that hour?
Is it like your car keys or the scissors? Do you just lose it? Into thin air? Do you suddenly become one hour older? Just like that? Too bad about the extra wrinkles?
And will the age and wrinkles repair themselves when the time falls back again in October?
Dr. Einstein?
Can you let me know? Before midnight preferably?
March 9th, 2008 at 7:40 am
The hour goes to the place that single socks occasionally go to. However, unlike the socks, the hour comes back in the fall.
March 9th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Tagbagger, it’s morning now, and I definitely feel as though some burglar broke in and robbed me of that hour. And when I look in the mirror, I’m not sure he didn’t steal more than one hour
March 9th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Why didn’t we think to go to Saskatchewan this weekend? Then we could have avoided this conversation.
March 9th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Well – we went to NYC this weekend, and we found our hour back! (and then lost 2.5 of them at Mama Mia, but that’s another story…)
March 9th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
BB no time thieves in Sask.
March 9th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
TagBagger, so I guess your that means you’re 1.5 hours outta luck.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:57 am
TagBagger, 2.5 hours lost at Mamma Mia is MORE than 2.5 times worse than losing an hour to daylight savings.
I think we should do away with daylight savings. I forgot to put my clocks ahead AGAIN this year.
March 10th, 2008 at 11:37 am
I always feel robbed in the spring. The extra hour in the fall is not too exciting to me, either. In fact, if I were President, one of my first acts would be to abolish daylight savings time. If you want more daylight, get up an hour earlier. That would be my official policy.
March 10th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
How weird. In the US, the shift officially happens at two in the morning. You guys do midnight?
March 10th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Deepti how long will it take before you have all your clocks switched over?
Patrick, maybe he will do it as one last act of mercy before he goes.
Chance, yes, you are absolutely right. I realized that after the post was out and was too lazy to change it.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
This is a test. My last two posts were either editted out by GT or simply vanished. Maybe they will return in the fall?
March 10th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Sorry Dick, I put your comment in while logged in and it came up under GT. I’ve changed it.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Yes, you are right Deepti, it is worse, but I think that since my wallet is now lighter, I’ll be able to move faster, and hopefully will regain the lost time eventually.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
That good huh TagBagger?
Has overtones of the Bohemian Crapsody musical I recently saw in TO
March 10th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
He would just say “it’s all relative” in that superior tone that made people feel so stupid that they never questioned him more.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
My 5 year old asked me today why it was still light outside. I briefly explained daylight savings to him, but had to reassure him that the sun had not radically shifted.
March 10th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Yeah, BeckEye, “it’s all relative” – that answer works well for your choice of Firecrotch of the Month. Hmmmmmmmm? But I’m not bitter.
Pezda, welcome to GT. My nine-year old looked at the clock tonight and asked why supper wasn’t ready… I explained that I hadn’t radically shifted.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:58 am
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