I was aware that “they” moved daylight savings up a few weeks this year. I even saw it listed on my calendar, however I forgot about it this weekend. So did my husband and I have a feeling that a lot of other people forgot as well.

Losing that one hour really messed me up. I hate thinking it is 10 am and then realizing it is really 11 am! One hour, completely disappeared. Where does it go!?

I don’t really understand the point of daylight savings, so I looked it up. Here is the definition according to Encarta:

Daylight saving time:
2006: Begins Sunday, April 2, ends Sunday, October 29
2007: Begins Sunday, March 11, ends Sunday, November 4

Daylight Saving is a system of setting clocks 1 or 2 hours ahead so that both sunrise and sunset occur at a later hour,

producing an additional period of daylight in the evening. Clocks are usually set back to standard time in the fall.

Ok. Yea that didn’t really help me either.

When I was 16 I went on a trip to Spain, which happened to be during the week that daylight savings occured. I tried to figure out a way to ask the concierge if they also participated in daylight savings, not an easy task with limited Spanish skills. Eventually he figured out what I was trying to say and no they did not participate in that and did not understand what it was for. Neither do I, but I turn my clocks back and forward as instructed. I wonder if there is a town somewhere in America where they boycott daylight savings?

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