Sometime this weekend was the recurrence of fiddling with our local offset from UTC, created so that we somehow save sunlight. Basic intuition will correctly lead you to guess how we arrived at such a brilliantly stupid idea--the same guy who was into making coinages about saving, and thus earning, pennies was also into ``saving'' time.

While it may have made some sense a hundred years ago, ``changing'' the clock has little societal benefit today. First of all, sadly, we are no longer an agriculture centric society, and even those who still have the privilege of praedial pursuits, can now work independent of daylight, and the few remaining that can't can find the moral courage to wake up at a differing clock read-out. The rest of us work in offices that have inadequate windowing, but even aside from that, all our machines require the same amount of power regardless of the presence of sunlight. We're essentially complicating the clock, so that we can solve a problem that doesn't exist anymore!

Now lets look at a problem that does exist: sRp doesn't work right on 24 hours. Our planet revolves slightly too fast such that there are too many interesting things to be done when it is suppose to be time to go to bed, so sleep gets put off. But if there are scheduled activities on the following day, then the sleep bank gets cut short, and deprivation occurs. Given a total lack of scheduling constraints, the personal ``timezone'' will naturally slip until the body is soon running on a timezone somewhere in China. This is a serious problem, because stores have this obsession with closing, and churches meetings once a week come just in time to completely throw off the natural timezone slip leaving a wake of jet-lag.

The fix to this problem is obvious. We need to rid ourselves of daylight's ``savings'' time, and replace it with a new system: ``sRp savings time''. This new system of savings works quite simply: all new clocks are made to cycle through 26 hours instead of 24, older clocks get two hours subtracted each night (officially at 2am). This would minimize continual local jet-lag: productivity would soar, moral would be bolstered, and confusion over our meddling twice a year with the clock for no reason would be a funny story we could tell our blissfully ignorant offspring.

As schvin pointed out, the teacher is not impressed because he obviously forgot the \n.

``Character is called being eccentric by those who don't understand.'' -- John Strickland