Why does my microwave clock always seem so desperate?
Standard time was introduced in the nineteenth century to help with weather predictions and travelling times. Geographic locations became time zones when Standard Time was adopted worldwide in the twentieth century. Standard Time is more closely associated with humans’ intrinsic circadian rhythm. In other words, it is healthier than switching back and forth between Standard Time and Daylight Savings Time… and yet, the clock ticks on.
Permanent Standard Time would afford us more of those crucial morning daylight hours. Historically, there is no valid reason for Daylight Savings Time. In fact, 78% of the world does NOT observe Daylight Savings Time and change their clocks twice a year. Maybe that is why my microwave clock seems so desperate. It understands that humans have a low tolerance for complications. My microwave understands that it gets harder and harder to remember how to change a clock on an appliance that narry needs one. Perhaps it senses that I have begun the search for a new microwave, one that doesn’t have a clock at all. If only 22% of the world would get on board with the rest of world and agree on a single time, my microwave would have a home for life, gleefully popping corn until the very last kernel.
Verily, if we had a single politician in our great country who possessed a little ‘back-bone’ who would carry his or her platform on the issue of ‘to fall or not to fall (back)’, all the good citizens would rise up to stand(ard) tall in the face of such microwave injustices. After all, desperate (microwave) times call for desperate measures. It is time for all microwaves to stop worrying about time (that is wrong), and get back to what they do best – re-heating my Tim Hortons’ coffee.
