I see in today’s West Australian newspaper that here in Australia we’re soon to change time zones.
From Thursday we’re abandoning Britain’s Greenwich Mean Time and adopting a new national standard based on the atomic clock. GMT is based on the movement of the sun over a brass mark at Greenwich but our official time will soon be based on the ultra precise vibrations of an atom.
I was pretty pleased when I read about the change but then I saw that it will only make a difference of a fraction of a second.
I was hoping it would pave the way for a little extra time for sleeping in each morning.
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All that for a fraction of a second. Still, a fraction of a second longer at work each day should justify the pollies’ next payrise. 😉
If you save all those fractions, they’ll add up in no time.
It’s only a fraction of a second, but I’m going to miss out altogether because I set my watch by an Internet website that uses UTC already… And I’m already tired enough with the baby and all that… I was looking forward to that extra sleep in! 😉
Well, I guess a fraction more sleep in the morning is better than nothing!
Why would you think that any modern invention would actually benefit us?