Spring Where?

Today is the day of Daylight Saving. I never quite understand why do we have to save daylight when there are almost infinite hours of daylight in the summer. It makes sense if we can store the surplus daylight, the daylight before 7am and after 8pm, and use it in the winter when the sun does not come up until 10am and leaves us by 4pm. That would be useful saving. As it is now the whole exercise is just that, a gesture looking for a reason. Some like to tell us that by moving the clock we save energy. It is not only a saving but also a great environmental policy, some tell us. There are much better and far more efficient ways to save energy. Why don’t governments put solar panels on the roof of every building, for example? That sounds like real daylight saving to me. UniverCity over at Simon Fraser University put solar cells on garbage cans to work the built-in compressors. Now, that is a good land and energy saving measure, and it won’t make me lose sleep. Meanwhile, I have to turn on all the lights in my house to find and change every clock in the middle of the night. That is going to make my meter turns; maybe that is the reason for the annoyance.