The Good, The Bad and the Early

We are talking about Daylight Saving Time, and the question is--what can you do with all that daylight you save? Go on vacation in the winter?

Yes, dear friends, the dreaded (for some of us) DST has returned. How can you tell? Watch cars going by with drivers dozing at the wheel, praying that the caffeine will soon kick in.

In recent years, energy conservation has been given as the rationale behind the time change. But we prefer the reason put forth when Daylight Saving Time was introduced--that it provides more hours for golf.

The practice of setting clocks one hour ahead has never been embraced by the largely agricultural province of Saskatchewan, because, as Mr. Berkley Bigler of Horizon astutely observed, "Cows don't play golf."

Trumpeter Ray Anthony's band used to play an old Maurice Chevalier song called "Moonlight Saving Time" ("There oughta be a Moonlight Saving Time/so I could love that girl of mine/until the birdies wake and chime/Good Morning") but the tune that springs to our mind and lips is "I Was Up With the Lark This Morning." At 2:30 a.m., we could hear morning DJs all across Canada cursing.

But enough of the bad stuff--consider the positive side of Daylight Saving Time: You get to Happy Hour a full sixty minutes sooner.