Oh, this is funny... Daylight saving time!!!

In the US, that is the earliest I have seen that happen. There are normally about two weeks of the year when the time difference shortens by an hour, because the US goes on daylight savings time earlier than Europe does. We are still on 'standard Middle Europe time' (MEZ) at present.

Daylight saving time was introduced here in the Mid-Seventies. And we had this lovely lady from Slovenia working in the restaurant, known as 'Mutti' (Mom), and the whole concept made her very angry. I tried and tried to explain it to her, and got nowhere fast, and using the same rationale as in the clip below. Nope, she wasn't having any of that, it was hog-wash, and all she felt was that 'someone' was stealing an hour from her, and she was being robbed. I finally had to give it up. Let out a huge sigh of exasperation, and said, 'Look, wait till the Fall, and then you get that hour back. Trust me.' I used to have to warn all our guests at the beginning, because they would come down for breakfast an hour too early in the Fall, or miss a meeting in the Spring. Whatever... it wasn't as ennervating as trying to explain why roosters in Europe say Kikiriki! and the ones in the US cry 'cockadoodle dooo!' (You really really want to try that one sometime... and wish you good luck with that...)

And I always thought it was an energy-saving thing. However... Rachel Maddow teaches us something new. As Joe.My.God pointed out yesterday. Have fun with it.