This is not a piece of my own creative work. But if you put up a prompt about one’s experience with time zone changes, and one of your respondents to the prompt has a brother who has made a living with a comedy routine on that topic–well, what did you expect?
Here is my brother Hugh on a Rodney Dangerfield special. Go to 5:11 to pick up the “time zone” bit.
That is what I thought of with the Retrospect Topic ‘Changing Times’ – not the clocks to be moved forward but the 1960s and then beyond. I was 14 when Bob Dylan’s song ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’ was first released and it foretold for me, it prepared me for, my coming of age challenges of drugs and ‘The War’ in Vietnam and girls and college. Five years later I would attend Woodstock and even more coming of age took place.
It is amazing how much music captured the present time while preparing me for my future. Including the Boston J. Geils Band and ‘Love Stinks’. Of course love doesn’t stink all of the time just some of the time.
What good does adding another hour of sunlight do in a state where the sun can shine for 24 hours straight, day after day?
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Since time is an arbitrary construct, I advocate for staying on Daylight savings time going forward.
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