A Matter of Time

Each Spring, an hour is stolen. The last few years, we've been threatened with not getting it back. How'd we get here, and where are we going? When we arrive, will we know what time it really is?

Atlanta, GA

March 9, 2025

We didn’t used to need governments to tell us the time. For millennia the sun did it for us, enabling our ancestors to get thru the day.

Medieval clocks added some precision. But their main "improvement” (if we want to call it that) on the ancient sundial was they enabled us to tell time at night.

Not that many people cared. In tho…