Spring Forward…Fall Back

Posted by anthonykuo , Jun, 2009 @ 9:14 am

daylight savings time clock
I recently stumbled upon this lovely invention, which provides a partial solution for a frustration that I have – why do the governments of the world think that they have the power to influence the time and the number of hours of sunlight that I see? I’m talking about Daylight Saving’s Time, a practice that not only screws up my non-atomic-clock-synchronized timepieces, but also my internal clock. Humans are animals that naturally rise with the sun (unless you’re a party animal, then you wake up just in time for dinner before another party), but it boggles my mind why an institutionally-induced jetlag is necessary.

But I digress. I once had a clock that, for a lack of a better location, was taped to the window with great effort. But then daylight savings time came around, and the clock was no longer accurate. But I wasn’t about to undo all the hard work that got the clock up there in the first place. So what my creative roommates did was put up a +1 sign next to the clock to indicate that an hour should be added to the time that the clock said. A much more elegant solution is this clock, which you can tilt back and forth by one hour to set the correct time when it changes.

Tags: alarm clock, clock, cool, daylight saving, gadget, rant