Still adjusting to daylight saving

[electricland]

This seems like as good a time as any to break out Robertson Davies:

I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.

(The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947)

Comments

[raithen.livejournal.com]

yes - BUT MORE RIDING TIME!!!!

[mrs-cake.livejournal.com]

I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen.

I like this.

Mind you, I actually like daylight savings in the summer. I'd rather get to work in the dark and come home in daylight than the other way round. More time for books in the garden.