Defined as
wasting time that might better be spent in productive labors generating income
or other things beneficial to the individual or the enterprise.
Daylight
Savings Time descends upon the nation, or most of it, at 0200 tomorrow
morning. This is earlier in the calendar
year than DST once went into effect. In
my youth, DST began in April and ended in October. There was also no official national statute
from 1945 – 1966. States and locales
could inflict or prevent time adaptation.
There have
been several Congressional intercessions since 1966.
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html
will provide a history of DST in the U.S. and other nations.
In a local
application of “burning daylight”, I just reset my watches. I have two solar-powered titanium wristwatches. One is a dual read-out analog & digital Citizen
product. The other, also a Citizen, is
an analog chronometer.
I reset these
watches twice a year, when we change to and from DST. The accuracy of both watches is tight enough
that I have never noticed more than a 10-second variation from the U.S.N.O
official time clock. It takes me about
30-45 minutes to maintain and reset these watches,
In all
honesty, I require more accuracy from my watches than most people will ever
need or demand. When I began in medical
lab analysis, we were still performing many functions manually against stopwatches
and timers. A second or two of error could
invalidate many procedures and necessitate a lengthy repeat for a whole series
of patients. Burning daylight generally
indicated a loss of attention or a non-functioning timer had caused an entire
run to fail. Having a highly accurate
watch on one’s wrist often removed an external variable and wasted time.
Don’t forget to set your watches and clocks ahead one hour
tonight. Don’t forget to change your
smoke detector batteries. Ours are
hard-wired, so all we have to do is change clocks.
That’s the
watchword for the day.
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