Spring forward, Fall back… A saying to help remember the folly of trying to alter time.

Tomorrow morning at this time it will be an hour forward. 0730 becomes 0830. People who forgot to change their clocks tonight will sleep blissfully through whatever time the clock shows, and others will be late for church or work or whatever they hold dear.

China is a vast area of territory spanning many lines of longitude and yet they have only one time.

The United States spans many lines of longitude and have many different readings of time. And if you look at the time-lines on a map, some time is dictated by state lines, rivers, railroad tracks… whatever whimsical fancy those in charge of time deemed to be appropriate.

As to the daylight savings time, some states do not participate, most do, and most people asked wonder why the heck it still exists.

Funny though, if you ask people, why does daylights savings exist? You’ll hear the standard, “I don’t know,” to so many other answers with the one answer dealing about farming and energy savings rising to the top.

The real answer though, as to why daylights savings time is practiced is because that is what people do. They follow and complain. They change and tweak. They are discontent in so much they seek to make their respective lives even more complex and miserable.

People are strange. One ‘minute’ trying to find and cling to happiness, while using the other ‘minute’ to make a huge mess out of their lives.

Maybe for such a primitive species it would be best if humans just lived with time and not try to change it? Appointments made and broken. Birth. Death. For humans, time is an equalizer. A mechanism fitting and comfortable/uncomfortable for a species trying to find itself.

Now, as for other species, time has no sway or influence. A billion years, a trillion years, a second… Meaningless.

For me, time is an amusement. A passing fancy. A story in a book. A book. It can be read over and over and over. It can be stopped or increased to a speed where countless universes flower, prosper and fade… all in a snap of the fingers.

Time can be reviewed, lived over, and changed. For people like Hawkings, his attempts are noble but his entrapment by his own mind has made him a slave to time, and once a slave to time it becomes almost impossible to break those chains.

So, tonight, change your clocks. Perform your daily time related rituals. And as your seconds, minutes, weeks, months, years, pass and fade. You will at least be able to say you served your time.