today the clock is rewinded one hour earlier so I get my first taste of Daylight Savings. I always knew they had it, and though I didn’t know the official reason why, i figured that it’s always nicer to have an “extra” hour of sunlight.
Well, today I took the trouble (google daylight savings. haha trouble wtf) to find out and i found a cute little website that summed it up quite neatly. check it out if you wanna gain some knowledge: http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html
Which brings me to my daily musing. How funny that we control time (by winding the clock however we choose) as if it’s something that humans can control. I have heard the saying “now we have an hour extra”, which was the exact thing I said when I got to boston “we gained a day flying backwards haha”
So, it brings me to what i’ve always thought about. Time, as it is known to us (weeks, hours, minutes, seconds etc) does not really exist, does it? They are mere terms for us humans to compartmentalize, organize our daily lives into agreeable, standardized times. So that when I said i start work at 5pm, we all know what i’m talking about. Somehow I think that’s the only reason we have what we call Time. Time does not exist but for these numbers that ultimately doesn’t mean anything except for us to understand how to arrange our lives.
As for the bigger, philosophical implications, I will not touch