C.: hey, d.c., why is tomorrow only 23 hours long?
d. Because tomorrow, at two a.m., daylight savings time starts.
C.: Then, are all the days until the end of the year only 23 hours long? Is that what Daylight Savings time does, save an hour a day so that, when it’s done, you can go back and correct the mistakes you made during the year?
d.: That would be nice, but no. There is only one 23 hour day, when we turn the clocks forward one hour. In the fall, there is one 25 hour day, when we set our clocks back.
C.: So, your saying that, really, there are only 24 hour days, on of earth’s revolutions, and humans try to change that by manipulating their clocks?
d.: Well…yes
C.: So why change the clocks?
d.: To get more daylight in the evening.
C.: Why not just start your day earlier? That would solve that problem.
d.: I suppose it would, be no one thinks that way. They think it’s easier to change to clock than to do what you suggested.
C.: Humans, you can’t understand them, but you can’t not live without them,,,. if your a cat who needs to be fed twice a day (or more).
d.: Oh, that reminds me. I need to go home and feed Shon and Big Boy.
C.: So, I guess that’s all the time we have for today, folks. Please join us tomorrow for another episode of Cal.e.’s Korner
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