The Elysian Fields

Daylight Savings Time Extension

Of course, there's the all-important voicing of the golfing lobby... but really, I'm having a bit of trouble with the comments on farming. Just because the sun would rise at a different hour doesn't really change the schedule on a farm - at least to my understanding. If it does, than we have fallen so far...

I would think that, regardless of which hand points where, the cycle on a farm depends more on the actual rising and setting of the sun, no matter what congress might legislate. I suppose if you remove the nature from the farm, the animals will become as mechanized as the industrial machinery controlling them, and you can tell them what time it is. I suppose if you pave over the damn roosters and set an earlier alarm clock running on that energy so cunningly saved, you can get a pre-dawn wake up call.

While I appreciate saving energy, I'm really not sure how much this will do: you're not changing the amount of sunlight during the day, you're merely shifting a framework. To me, the whole thing just seems to smack of trying to twist and control things on an artificial basis. Then again, I'm not really a fan of clocks, as that seems to be their entire function. When I first read Harlan Ellison's "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktock Man I thought to myself "This Harlequin is me!" - except for the fact that I tend to arrive early rather than late we tend to be rather similar. Of course, I thought this before the name of the Harlequin was revealled...