Official Real Time

[unixronin]

"Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ..." — er, to Official Real Time, upon this day when we do violence once again to our circadian clocks.

You know what I want to know?  Has anyone ever checked to see if there's more traffic accidents the Monday morning after DST begins?

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Why stop there? If we set the clocks far enough ahead, we could start producing net energy from timeshifting! In fact, I want to know why we're not doing it right now! Why, if we just set all the clocks 168 hours ahead in a single step, nobody would even notice! Why isn't Congress doing this yet?

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

Didn't we do something like that two centuries (or so) ago when we adjusted the Gregorian Calendar?

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

Yes, and next thing that happened was the Industrial Revolution. All that energy had to go someplace.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

By the gods, you're right! Let's call Steven Chu right now!

This isn't without historical precedent -- see ithildae's note below, and it's well known that during the Fascist era Italy's trains ran on time. Sadly, the technology that made this possible was deep-sixed after the war by the government and the oil companies.