![]() Taylor Swift announced her first tour in five years. Takeoff, part of the trio Migos, was a master of syncopation who represented a new vanguard of rappers in Atlanta. As Scott Prunty of Clyde, Ohio, wrote, with perhaps the most sensible bit of advice, “Accept that it’s out of your control and move along.” It’s a tradition to grouse about it if you hate it, gloat about it if you love it, an annual event that, like many things, soon shall pass. The end of daylight saving time isn’t the most pressing problem, of course. “Follow the phases of the moon you’ll be seeing it a LOT over the next six months.”ĭonna Meehan of Melbourne, Fla., keeps a bottle of Coppertone suntan oil in her bag and takes a big sniff every time she needs a dose of summer. “Get a good star chart and relearn all those major constellations,” she added. “Dig out the stew and bread recipes,” wrote Alice Brown of Shelburne, Vt. Heaven!” wrote Marcy Albin from Santa Fe, N.M. Those who see this time of year as peak hygge have it down: “Have your book ready, a beverage of choice, read for an hour, stretch, turn the clocks back and read for another. “I use the end of daylight savings in the fall to start waking up earlier and going to bed earlier (something I fail at spectacularly in the summer),” she wrote. Hope Newhouse in Paris - speaking from very recent experience, as standard time began in most of Europe last weekend - doesn’t really try to adjust. “That way, I get accustomed to the extra hour gain or loss during the day, and when Sunday rolls around, it doesn’t feel like such a shock to the system,” said Michael Dunlap of Spokane, Wash. Several readers wrote of easing into it by changing their clocks on Saturday or even earlier in the week. then deciding that an hour of coffee, muffins and the paper would be great to repeat.” If you have that kind of flexibility in your Sunday schedule, this seems like a sound plan. My favorite coping mechanism came from Kristin Easter in Bellevue, Wash., who doesn’t change her clocks on Sunday until she happens upon an hour she’d like back, “most of the time waiting until 11 a.m. Thank you, please make up the extra bedroom.) (I also received quite a few invitations to relocate from readers in Arizona, Hawaii and Mexico. Last week, I asked how you adjust to the return of standard time, and I received scads of good advice. I attempt every year to reorient myself toward the darker days, to welcome the clocks’ changing as another harbinger of cozy season. ![]() We regain the hour we lost in the spring, “one final consolation, handed out like a party favor popped into a child’s loot bag to soften the blow of going home, now that the party’s over,” as Joan Gould wrote in The Times in 1981. Tomorrow morning, in the tiniest hours, daylight saving time ends. ![]()
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