WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW ... Daylight Savings Time

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW...this is a regular headline in the internet.  Today's topic is what you need to know about the time change to daylight saving time this Sunday.  There was nothing that I needed to know in the article on Daylight Saving Time from Globalnews.ca.  But it got me to look at it.  What if there is something important this year and this weekend? When I think of a clock - I see one of those regulation school clocks. Isn't this such a familiar sight all through my generation's childhood and well into adulthood.  We would see these clocks in schools, hospitals, industries.  What does the ITC stand for on this clock?     It stands for independent transmit clock.  Looking at pictures of classrooms, there is the electric clock high on the wall in most of them.  I assume they are electromagnetic. It is interesting how little moI know about the time-keeping of clocks and yet they are so ingrained in everything we do today. Remember the school bell in the classrooms?  It signalled the end of class.  It must have also signalled the beginning, but it is the end that seems more appealing to the memory.  The move to Daylight Savings Time is a welcome one - it signals the end of winter approaches and the beginning of spring is here. Today's image was taken at Vineland Research - one of its buildings has a wall of boston ivy that turns a beautiful red in the fall.  The windows seem to be eyes reflecting the sky.

Time's Up

It is now Daylight Savings Time.  It brings to mind  our expressions and idioms that describe time. The Wikipedia Time Philosophy Section brings us this introduction: Two distinct viewpoints on time divide many prominent philosophers. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time. An opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of actually existing dimension that events and objects "move through", nor to any entity that "flows", but that it is instead an intellectual concept (together with space and number) that enables humans to sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, holds that space and time "do not exist in and of themselves, but ... are the product of the way we represent things", because we can know objects only as they appear to us. Here are a few of the expressions/idioms from The Free Dictionary's Time entry: (a) quarter of (a given hour in time) (someone) puts (his/her) trousers on one leg at a time (just like ever a (ticking) time bomb a devil of a time A good time was had by all a hard time a legend in( one's) own time a matter of time a question of time a race against time A stitch in time a week is a long time in politics a whale of a (good) time about time against the clock against time ahead of one's time ahead of time all in good time all the time all the time in the world any time appear at some time arrange for some time arrive on the stroke of some time at a set time at a time at no time at one time at one time or another at present at some time sharp at that point at the appointed time at the present time