Jimmy Higgins
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Daylight savings time is starting (ending?) soon this Sunday. As with most arbitrary things, there is a lot of minutia about it. So here some questions and answers regarding the annual transition of daylight savings.
- Why is there Daylight Savings?
- The fuck we know. It might have something to do with cows.
- Is it really necessary to keep doing this year after year? Are we really saving anything?
- Change is what communists believe in you damn pinko!
- I have a hard time remembering whether it is fall back and spring forward or fall forward and spring back, which is it?
- Oh thanks! Now we aren't certain anymore.
- What do I need to do?
- You need to turn the clocks and smoke detectors back one hour... or maybe it was forward.
- Some clocks might have already adjusted, which will make it hard to figure out what fucking time it is. We recommend taking an average.
- Will the Fed changing the base lending rate impact Daylight Savings?
- No! Why would you even think that?!
- Is there any way I can watch the official time move back?
- Yeah, but it happens at 2 AM... or does it change to 2 AM? Regardless, unless you are watching cricket in the ICC T20 World Cup, you are going to be too asleep or too drunk to care.
- Does Australia have to turn clocks the opposite direction than us?
- If they did daylight savings... oddly yes, but not for the reason you are thinking, it'd be because of the Coriolis effect.