Time and Illusions

I always feel this way when we have a time change, that if it's this easily manipulated, then what does it mean, anyway? If one day 11  a.m. is at 11 a.m. and the next day it's at 10 a.m., then why don't we consider more drastic options?

Could we say today is Friday and be done with the week?  Could we skip right past the midterm elections and the interminable analysis that will follow them?

For that matter, can we move right along to next spring? That would be best of all.

"People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion," Einstein said.

In these first dark days of Eastern Standard Time, I'm believing more in physics than I ever have before.