I woke this morning to differing clocks. It took me a while to notice; the clocks on the computers are how I tell time when I’m at home, while the time on my phone is what I use when going mobile. When time matters at all.
Tonight I’m at the Budvar Bar Near Home, and the television is on. They just showed a feature about the confusion caused by the time change, and part of that was footage of engineers resetting the astronomical clock in the center of town.
This clock is a big tourist draw, a bigger tourist disappointment, and the ancient mechanism should not be subject to modern arbitrary time laws. The clock should be showing solar time, the way it did when it was first built. While every other timepiece in the square is telling you what time we have decided it should be, that one clock should stand defiant, and say what time it really is. I guarantee that will only add to the magic.
You make a most compelling argument in favor of letting that clock stand in its own time zone.
And congress changed it this year “to conserve energy” Actually, this means we have to turn on lights and heat earlier in the morning, and go to bed while the house is still warm, but who can question congress? So we went on DTime earlier, and won’t change until next week!
moments wondering
do you pause and calculate
what time it is here?