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Tranquility base.

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I awoke this morning feeling strangely tranquil. It took a moment or two to register. Daylight saving time has ended.

I always feel so much better when I get my hour back, but everyone else seems to think it's the end of the world. They talk as though someone has taken ahold of the world and moved it so that the sun rises and sets at a different time.

Nature hasn't moved one iota, all that's happened is someone's diddled with the clocks because, apparently, we're all too stupid to get up earlier without being made to. Actually I think the problem lies at the other end of the day, we're all too stupid to know when we should be going to bed. With the advent of 24hr TV, radio, shopping, working, garages, and drinking establishments we seem to have lost the ability to notice that it's getting dark and we'd be a whole lot better off in bed.

I wonder if we're evolving. It's not that many years since we went to bed and arose again with the sun, and that's obviously the way God planned it because we're designed to live in daylight, at night it's cold and dark and we have to resort to artificial means to keep warm and get around, but maybe H. G. Wells had it right, perhaps in the future some of us will be able to see in the dark and be completely dazzled by sunlight, some of us will feel the cold of night as being natural and have to take to our beds during the heat of the day. We'll develop into night watch and day watch only meet at dusk and dawn. We could all share jobs, homes, beds even!

I don't care as long as we don't have to go onto daylight saving time again next year.

Does anybody know what time it is?

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I've just noticed that you can no longer set the time of your blog. You either post it at the time you want it to appear or you don't post it at all.

It's not a feature I feel much need for but I am curious as to why it's been removed. I'm guessing it was being abused in some way, but how do you abuse a time/date stamp? Were people writing stuff they'd seen elsewhere then backdating their blog so's it looked like they'd thought of it first?

My only concern is that I used it to 'post' a blog at an hour that didn't exist, the one that vanishes when they put the clocks forward for daylight savings time.

I do hope that didn't upset the system so badly that they had to make sure that I never ever do it again.

I think we should be told...
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