The absurd President Chavez of Venezuela has declared that Venezuelan Time will now be put back half an hour. Chavez is of course a figure of fun - it is supposed to differentiate Venezuela from the time the USA is on - but it reminds me of the silly position we are in ourselves and the half-witted debate that goes on whenever the subject is brought up.
The name - Daylight Saving Time - is not just a misnomer, it is designed to deceive. Not one second of daylight is saved by pompous asses talking drivel in parliament. The days are just as long (or short) as they would otherwise have been. What has happened is thickoes - you have to be pretty stupid for this but it seems to apply to a large section of the populace - unable to get up or go to bed at a different time, wake up on the morning the clocks have gone back and say 'Gosh, thanks to those brilliant people in parliament it is lighter at 8am than it was'. Why on earth do we organise ourselves around these people?
Are you a farmer who finds it is inconveniently dark when you go out at 7am? Go out at 8. Are you a Mother who doesn't want her children walking home in the dark? Organise with the PTA that the school starts earlier and finishes earlier.
Leave the rest of us with the time the good Lord gave us.
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