Don’t forget to set your clocks forward, at least that goes for most of you. Here’s an interesting look at the history of the clock-switching.
But shifting 60 little minutes — forward or back — can have unexpected consequences in a world where trains, ball games and even terrorist attacks go by the clock.
In September 1999, for instance, the Palestinian West Bank was still on daylight-saving time and Israel had just returned to standard time when terrorists smuggled two car bombs across the border, planning to detonate them alongside Israeli buses at precisely 6:30 p.m.
The buses, however, were running on standard time. The timers were on daylight time. When the bombs went off, the buses were nowhere in sight and three terrorists died in their own cars.
Ahhh, finally some sunshine when I leave the office.
Still, I’ll probably manage to forget to change the clocks anyway.