Whenever the clocks get set back or forward, it always messes me up completely. I don’t wear a watch, and aside from the cable box in the living room and the computers in the den, there aren’t any other clock-like devices in the house. I come to know about what time it is by the lighting of the sun coming through windows. It always works perfectly, until Spring arrives and suddenly I am forced to adapt to “fake” time.

An example of how Daylight Saving Time has screwed me up today: I decided I wanted to make a turkey roast for dinner. Without looking at the time, I got up when it felt like the right time to get started on it, preheated the oven, and put the roast in. Then I sat at the computer and realized it’s already 8 pm, so now we won’t be eating dinner until 10 pm (which is a bit late for dinner).

Nothing to be done about it now. The roast is already cooking in the oven, and I don’t have anything else prepped for dinner, so I guess we’ll just have to starve (or eat donuts) until it’s ready. Very freaking annoying.

And no, the answer is not for me to buy a watch or some clocks … the answer to this problem is to stop playing around with what time it is based on some outdated idea that we are saving electricity by adjusting the time during the summer. Back when we didn’t live in a 24-hour-a-day world, that might have been true. Now it’s just stupid. All those city lights and business lights come on when it’s dark no matter if dark is 8 pm or 9 pm, and they stay on all night long until the sun comes up again whether that happens at 6 am or 7 am. Get over it already.

I look forward to fall so I can “fall back” to actual time.