Late to bed — early to rise

Press, 4 March 1978, Page 1

Late to bed — early to rise

By

STAN DARLING

The curtain will fall on Sunday — after ■ four months of daylight saving the lingering twilight will be no more. And even though summer light is not ’ yet over, people will have to get out of bed an hour earlier to catch all of it. For those who run their days by the clock, and like to sleep in erf a Sun-

day morning (or any morning), the earlier dawn will be more irritating as sunlight streams in the bedroom windows. Clocks, watches, and other man-made time measurers — except sundials — must be set back an hour from 3 a.m. on Sunday to do away with New Zealand Daylight Time. But if you don’t

want to join that elite of sticklers who force themselves to stay awake for the exact moment, cheat a bit and do the job on Saturday night. If you are an early riser, get with it. Be up with the sun and gather your rosey glow while you may. 4 One more thing. If

clocks are only an extra annoyance at the best of times, forget about turning them back. Open the window and toss them at that stray cat that yowls all night. Or out on the back porch where their ticking can bother someone else. And rest easy. There are only about 240 more early dusks before daylight saving is with us again.