Blog 3773 – 03.11.2026

The Changing of Time

I finally realized yesterday afternoon that I had forgotten to set the clocks forward to Daylight Savings time on Sunday morning. I believe this is the first time that I forgot to do so since the Uniform Standard Time Act of 1966 made it law across most of the United States. I never cared much for the switch and for some years now have been hoping that law would be reversed with all our clocks left on Standard Time year round. For a day and a half only my IPhone and IPad showed the correct time with all the clocks in our house and those in our car and truck still displaying Central Standard Time.

On Facebook for sometime they have been running AI generated reels showing the casts of several popular TV shows first with the cast members seated looking as they did when they did the show and then joined by their older selves as they currently look or as they did when they died. The deceased actors are show depicted wearing angel wings. On the whole I find these reels interesting if a bit creepy. Which is, I suppose, how I view AI and the changing of time in general – interesting but a bit strange or creepy.

In one of my wife and my favorite songs, Nick of Time, Bonnie Raitt, sings:

Sadly many of us spend too much of our time, effort, energy, and resources trying to resist change instead of going with the flow. Perhaps AI will help us learn to accept change better or more likely it will be just another novelty that we tire of and discard over time like Day Light Savings time, I hope. Yet, then again maybe I am on the wrong side of history on this time change thing. Changing the clocks does remind us like today’s picture quote that time does not change things, rather if we want things to change, it is up to us to change them, as we do the batteries in the smoke detectors or the air filters in the heating and air conditioning systems. Change like that making a more perfect Union thing mentioned in the U.S. Constitution requires us to discard beliefs and behaviors that are no longer serving us and to take action before we run out of time.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White

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Nick of Time