{"id":1730,"date":"2024-11-03T06:01:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2024-11-03T06:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T14:01:42","slug":"daylight-savings-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/2024\/11\/03\/daylight-savings-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Daylight Savings Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have we just gone to &#8216;Savings&#8217; or &#8216;Standard&#8217; time? I don&#8217;t know and I don&#8217;t really care. It&#8217;s 5:30 in the morning and my body thinks it&#8217;s 6:30. The time change screws me up twice a year and it pisses me off every time. The TV news always makes some reference to having &#8216;another hour of daylight&#8217;. That&#8217;s so stupid I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m commenting on it. The length of the day (or night, if you prefer) changes throughout the year because of the actual physical characteristics of the planet we are living on.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of reasons for humans to have a time system that we can all agree on but changing it twice a year is a relic of days gone by. Let it go, folks! Nowadays, we have work from home, we have 24 hour TV, let&#8217;s all be adults and deal with each day on it&#8217;s own terms. I mean, really, how many people are checking whether the sun is exactly overhead at noon?<\/p>\n<p>I have seen more news items indicating that Americans are coming to their senses on this. Most of them say the proposals are for permanent &#8216;Daylight Savings Time&#8217;. So, whatever was &#8216;standard&#8217; 100 years ago is now not standard. Whatever. Get it done Congress!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think I should research my own writing on a topic before going off. What&#8217;s the fun of that? The tag cloud has at least one other entry for &#8216;time change&#8217;. You are welcome to wallow in my ranting if you like, dear reader. At least I don&#8217;t have to go to work this week so maybe I can recover sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have we just gone to &#8216;Savings&#8217; or &#8216;Standard&#8217; time? I don&#8217;t know and I don&#8217;t really care. It&#8217;s 5:30 in the morning and my body thinks it&#8217;s 6:30. The time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[531],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-we-know-it","tag-time-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}