On Sunday, many of us adjusted our schedules and lifestyle one hour so that we can enjoy a longer day of sunlight during the summer.  While many of us don’t mind changing our clocks back one hour in the fall, moving them forward one hour in the spring means we lose an hour of sleep.

This year, I only had to adjust two of my clocks.  I don’t live in Arizona.  And I’m not an hour early to dinner either.  My cell phone, TiVo, alarm clocks, and computers all changed the time without my intervention.  The only two items, the microwave and the clock in my car, needed adjustment.

It’s very convenient not having to change all the clocks manually; especially the annoying digital clocks which make you cycle through the twenty-three hours when we fall back in the fall.  I remember back in the days when my computer had me confirm the right time the first time I turned it on after the time changed.  Now it changes automatically.  My TiVo automatically adjusts.

My cell phone uses the time from the cell network.  Unless the cell phone provider doesn’t change the clock, I should always have the correct time.  I recently converted a analog wall clock to a digital atomic clock.  No need to worry about that clock now.

One could call the human species lazy for not adjusting the clocks that we depend upon so much.  But we brought this on ourselves.  To have more sunlight, we adjust our day as the sun and Earth make their orbital dance.  If we didn’t need to know the time, when the sun rose we would too.  When the sun sets, we would retire for the night.

So as you adjust to the missing hour of sleep and the sun still being up at seven at night, remember the reason we have clocks in the first place.  If we didn’t have them, we wouldn’t have to adjust the time or even obey the clock.