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Which Clock Do You Have To Change Now?

What’s your approach to overcoming time shifts?

Sven Vandenberghe
2 min readMar 27, 2022
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Woke up by your neighbor’s annoying rooster this morning?

Maybe that’s because you’ve slept too long?

Maybe you didn’t take into account that we shifted fast forward one hour today? Chance is your clock wasn’t set on automatic synchronization.

Roosters recognize when the sun rises and when the sun sets. Their biological clock does not recognize daylight saving time.

“Daylight saving time is nothing more than an abstraction of your thoughts.”

The rooster doesn’t have access to a clock and doesn’t know or care anything about daylight wasting time. The question remains: Should you?

Adjusting your watch time is only good for economical purposes, and even then.

Why do we change the time two times a year?

In Europe, summer and winter times are an agreement of the European Union. Fast forward time one hour towards summer in March. This happens in almost all European countries. In October your clock gets rewinded for one hour.

The thing is we all change the wrong clock.

“It isn’t your watch which

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Sven Vandenberghe
Sven Vandenberghe

Written by Sven Vandenberghe

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