The days have been getting shorter since the Summer Solstice last month and will continue to do so. both in terms of dawnings and duskings (duskings? Sure, why not) until we reach late December. But since the only constant is change, we may be about to change from falling back this autumn as we've done for decades.
US Congress takes next step to make daylight saving time permanent. I used the clock resetting stuff every fall to remind myself to swap out the batteries in the smoke alarms, but now that I have the new ones with the ten-year batteries, I'm ambivalent about permanent Daylight Saving Time.
I'll be willing to bet a year or two of stumbling around in the dark, going to school or work in the morning and/or coming home from work and school in cave darkness might cool our ardor for this innovation. Of course, it could do wonders for flashlight sales.
-bill kenny
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