MMeM, Vol. 9 Issue 34 – What time isn’t it?

Well, well, well today exactly 95 years ago US Congress established time zones and daylight savings time. Who could have possibly known that almost a century away from then, that this would still be causing such heartache and confusion?

I know people, who still say that the “recent” time change back from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time has them all messed up because they have been dealing with losing that hour. It has been 9 days since the time change.

Or, I’m sorry, it’s been 8 days and 15 or 14 hours since the time change. Look if you can still sense that lost hour now, then I don’t know what you do for a living but you should be working for a clock company. Anyone know if Timex, Casio, Ingraham, or Westclox is hiring?

Have you ever noticed how analog clocks are always displayed on 10:08 and digital clock display films always show them at 12:08? Interesting isn’t it? I take special meaning or I guess pride from this because I was born at 10:08 am.

What I haven’t been able to determine, with precision, is whether my birth certificate has the DST time of day on it OR CST time of day. It should have been Daylight Savings by my birthday, records show, but who knows how exact they were back then with that stuff. That reminds me of the evening news when they report historical highs and lows for temperature for your local area or town.

Do you really believe that when the weatherman says the record low for this day was 27 degrees back in 1913, that Ezekiel or whomever was reading the thermometer of the day was very precise?

I don’t. Please. I trust 100 year old weather records as far as whether someone said it rained or not. Done. What was the barometric pressure in 1909? No one knows and if they think they do, they don’t.