One more or one less?
Opinion
TDG
It’s time to set the record straight. This weekend, we are switching to daylight saving time. I naively believed that these changes would soon be abandoned, since their effectiveness is not proven and they have been talked about for ages. But no, nothing is moving. It seems that discussions are skidding in Brussels. So we always stick to it…
The passage will take place in the night from Saturday to Sunday. As the saying goes, “at 2 o’clock, it will be 3 o’clock”. Good! But already doubt sets in, as always.
Do we move the needles forward or back? Do we gain or lose an hour?
In short: we lose sleep, we gain luminosity in the evening. And we advance the needles. The clocks are thus set back on time!
Note that this practice is soon on the way out. Today’s tocantes no longer need to be manipulated to follow the course of the world. They adapt automatically. They are programmed for. Flexibility required. And presto, without being asked anything, they are exactly right, to the nearest nanosecond.
It is the mechanical watches, the old cuckoo clocks, the morbier in the living room that need our help to be able to give the measure of time. And if possible the right one. Otherwise their days are numbered. Of course, if the bulletin board is a Rolex or some other luxury brand capable of getting the bidding off the ground, it won’t be languishing in the bottom of a drawer.
But the grandfather’s clock is another story, for those who remember the song of the great Brel, the old people. “And if they tremble a little / Is it to see the silver clock aging / Which purrs in the living room / Who says yes who says no / who says “I’m waiting for you.” Because yes, whether it is measured in winter or summer time, time passes…
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