Springing Forward

If you got up at 2 this morning to move the hour hand ahead one hour, congratulations.  You followed the rules of daylight savings time to the letter.

 

Most folks not living in Arizona (where they don't fall in for such nonsense), set their clocks ahead before retiring for the night.

 

Jokingly, I used to set the clocks ahead when I got up Saturday morning. 

 

It worked best if there was nothing on the "to do" list for the day, and persuaded the children to head off at bedtime at the usual time.  This technique worked for years and made it a whole lot easier to get the boys out of bed on Sunday mornings.  (By the way, feel free to use this - a gift from me to you.)

 

Light doesn't change, just the time we choose to measure it by.  Farm animals don't adapt well to change, and I recently read it is virtually impossible to reset our biological clocks.  I'm hoping that effect doesn't last long - I really don't want to keep getting up at 4:30.

 

Yet, the change is part of our anticipation of long, warm days with time to spend outside after work before we have to search for artificial light.  We exchange the daylight from morning to evening, so our mornings will be darker for a month or so before everything balances out.

 

If it's nice where you are today, one way to enjoy and reset your brain's alarm is with an evening stroll around the neighborhood with a spring forward in your step.