Harry Shannon
Spring forward, Fall back; so goes the saying. Which means you ‘lose’ one hour when the clocks go forward in Spring.
Yet I managed to lose three! I was in Canada for the first one on 10 March. North America extended the summer time period some years ago. The U.S. Congress were pretending they were taking measures to save energy, and Canada followed suit.
Then I was in Jordan on March 29, when they changed the clocks; and in London on March 31. So three hours lost. It felt like a warp in the space-time continuum.
Maybe I need to go back to Jordan and London in the Fall to recover my lost time. I could read Marcel Proust’s À la Recherche du Temps Perdu. But ploughing through the seven volumes would lose me a lot more than three hours. (Yes, I know it’s one of the great classics, and I shouldn’t be so dismissive. But have you read it?)
Actually, the ‘answer’ is that the time difference when I travelled between countries was different than normal – but only in one direction. For example, flying from Toronto to London, the clocks moved forward only four hours instead of the usual five; but flying the other way they moved back by five. So I regained the hour I lost when the clocks changed in London, and was back to just the one hour lost in Canada. Which I’ll get back in the Fall.