I am in a great mood these days, and I know why! I wrote this poem a couple of years ago (or more, I think) about my love affair with Standard Time. I have no idea why they monkey around with clocks anyway, and I wonder exactly who “they” are! Someone should speak sternly to them and get them to shape up!
This was written in the spring, at the beginning of that odious thing known as Daylight Savings Time (shudder).
STANDARD TIME
Time falls back
then springs ahead
as usual messing with my bed-
time routine of sleeping and rising,
for the morning sun can be surprising
at a normal hour rather than late.
But changing the clock
is something I hate
abhor, dislike, disdain.
Please let Standard Time remain
the standard. Doesn’t that mean what it seems?
Hey! Standard means regular, predictable,norm
let the early bird go get his or her worm
Just let the clock be and let church-goers arrive
at the time posted, awake, alive.
(Instead of late in April or early in November!
Leave clocks alone, ‘n’ time’s a snap to remember.)
Daylight Savings should be done away with
more light for work and play is a myth.
We all know we’ll do those things, light or dark
So quit changing my clock
I’d like to park
my clock in good old Standard Time
Eastern, Central, Mountain or Pacific
Just leave time alone, that would be terrific.
To repeat, I hate Daylight Savings Time!
So this is my ode, a paean, a rhyme
For good old standard, STANDARD TIME!
I think that says it well enough. . .
(wc 272)
Reflections From a Cloudy Mirror 
Ain’t that the truth Paula.. almost makes one want to move to Arizona…Well, Almost.. but then, Hawaii doesn’t observe the Governmental clock either…Hey…now there’s a thought…
Aloha
paul
Sounds like a plan, Paul! 😆
Well said, and I’m with you – why are they messing with time anyway?
Please never mind my addled brain, PAULA – not sure who I was writing to here. I know, I’ll blame it on the time change!! 🙂
Hi Paula 🙂 The dark has hit us here, right between the eyes, and we’re walking around in waking sleep, propping our eyes open with matchsticks. I’m not sure there is an answer here though: the dark closes in on us from all sides…
Glad we don’t have it here, no idea how I would cope …
Oops, missed adding the link at “according to this” …… http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/
Ahhhh, sorry Pauline. I’m with the school of thought that prefers DST (and wishes “they” would move the clocks forward and LEAVE them there. 🙂 Never been much of a morning person (despite many years in the working world that required me to get up in the dark), so I’d rather stretch my daylight hours into the evening when I’ve generally gotten my second wind.
Also, my sis (housemate) and I are clock lovers/collectors, so the house is full of them, and it’s a major chore to get them all in unison after the springing forward and falling back each year.
According to this, DST may have been first thought of much earlier than the war years. And Doug, I’m in Indiana….DST is a reality here again (much to the chagrin of some of my family members). 🙂
Could not agree more, especially now that I have a toddler who does not adjust her sleeping routine to the whims of others!!
I think it was the war years that messed with time. To help farmers etc to get in the harvest and plough or whatever farmers do.
But that was many years ago and now I think it should remain the same all the years
Enough is enough eh Paula?
I’m so glad they don’t mess around with our time. But if they did to save daylight I would agree.
Good to hear you’ve been in a good mood!@ Keep it that way!
I love the time in summer, the day is much longer, I wish it could remain like this in winter too, darkness and cold not really my cup of coffee, not at all actually 🙂
Blessings Paula!
I hate it in the springtime when I can’t get out of bed; I don’t mind it so much in the fall when I gain an hour instead. Standard time seems fine with me. Apparently, we are in the minority and must get with the program. But I, too, don’t care for Daylight Savings Time. Blessings to you, Paula…
It depends whereabouts you live in your own time zone. We like our children to go to school in the daylight, so we like “British Summer Time”, which is another daylight saving time. I live on both clocks, because I use UTC for radio, which is world wide.
John
Paula,
That was a pleasant way of expressing your displeasure. It would be nice if everyone could that way.
I agree, its a square wheeled idea. I would like to see D S T all year. That would save fuel and lives on the roads at night by being lighter longer in the winter.
Or you can move to Indiana.
How many really need daylight savings time? Could we have a show of hands, or a referendum during the presidential elections? But it would probably become a political issue along party lines like everything else!
Hubs
Amen! Preach, brother!
Nice poem, but I like Daylight Savings Time much better than Standard Time. I hate having it be dark at 6 pm. ACK!
Unfortunately, Nancy, my blog-friend, my response to that is “TOUGH!” You are not allowed, however, to respond in kind. . .
Yeah are “they” anyway? Who are “they” that have messed with “our” time. We liked it the old way. Sometimes the old ways are better.
YEAH!! This is when we need to stick with the old ways. 😆