New Daylight Savings Time Changes

New Daylight Savings Time Changes

With all the problems facing our new incoming governor, he has released his highest priority goal to be accomplished in his first week in office because it affect s him too. As you remember, last spring Julian’s mayor announced that he unanimously decided to have Julian withdraw from using daylight savings time. He evidently has this enormous cast iron biological clock that strenuously resists change and it made him late all week after the change and he also resented having to get up, in reality, an hour earlier each day. If that wasn’t enough, he certainly didn’t like to deal with several people in town that were grouchy as a result of the time change. He garnered support from the schools because children have to ride the bus to school in the dark and slept through the first hour of classes. Upon getting wind of the mutiny against daylight savings time, Governor Schwarzenegger decided to create an essential state service that allowed any individual in the State of California to not go on daylight savings time if they paid a fee at the Department of Daylight Savings Time that was created to handle the onslaught of applicants. The Department of Daylight Savings Time is overseen by the Commission on Daylight Savings Time which meets twice a year and is made up of former state legislators who are paid $130,000 per year and cannot run again because of term limits. To make things more convenient for Californians, he set up local locations for the department that are near to DMV offices and so he could staff them with employees that were laid off and furloughed from the DMV to help balance the state budget. Governor-elect Brown has decided that the system that was set-up was too cumbersome and confusing with some people on Daylight Savings and some not. To streamline government and make it more efficient and less costly, everyone now will have to go on Daylight Savings Time and the Department of Daylight Savings Time will be disbanded. He is very understanding about the terrible jolt we all receive to our biological clocks at the twice a year change and will make the transition a lot easier. Instead of abruptly setting our clocks ahead one hour and then setting them back one hour just when we got used to it, we will now set our clocks ahead one minute per day for two months in the spring and then set them back one minute per day for two months in the fall. The Commission on Daylight Savings Time will not be disbanded because Governor-elect Brown has friends and supporters on it.

©2010 Eric Stamets