Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday — Seven things to know about “springing forward”
This is the actual title of an article that I saw linked from Google News, and I thought it was absurd just on that alone. What seven things could there possibly be to know about Daylight Saving Time?
It turns out that if you’re in the listicle business, you can make a list of just about anything if you put your mind to it. (There’s a sort of funniness that the article I linked about listicles is in the form of a listicle.) So the list is basically why it exists at all, whether everyone uses it, whether or not it is dangerous, and how it would be possible to get rid of it. Was it necessary to make an entire listicle about that? Probably not. Is that why I’m about to make my own listicle that pokes fun at theirs? You bet.
Without further ado… seven things to know about springing forward.
- It’s called Springing Forward, but you don’t actually have to jump.
2. You have to set some of your clocks forward yourself. This is especially the case if you have a large collection of pocket watches. Some particularly wealthy pocket watch enthusiasts spend all day setting their watches forward
3.Some people have the custom of watching “The Producers” on the Saturday night before Daylight Saving Time. Why? Because there’s a song called “Springtime for Hitler.”
4.The previous item on this listicle is not an example of Godwin’s Law despite the fact that it mentioned Hitler. Why? Because this is not an internet discussion.
5.Godwin’s Law is an assertion that the longer an online discussion goes on, the more likely someone will be to invoke a comparison to Hitler. Watch a discussion online and you will see it happen.
6.Wait, wasn’t this supposed to be about Daylight Saving Time? Sorry about that. It’s entirely possible to remove your own obligation to follow Daylight Saving Time, if you so choose. All that you have to do is be wrong about the time for about half the year.
7.On the other hand, if you want to be really special about it, you could just consider that the majority of people around you are the ones that are wrong about the time for about half the year, and you’re the only one who knows what time it really is.
