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To: invictus who wrote (55847)	10/27/2002 2:45:55 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

60 minutes ________________________________________________ Editorial The Boston Globe 10/26/2002 THIS WEEKEND brings an extra hour, but steals the light. Life is ever a trade-off. The shift to standard time can make a person feel richer in minutes, but poorer in spirit as the shadows move in too quickly on what so recently had been a sunny early evening. At least the added hour, officially arriving at 2 a.m. tomorrow, extends what for most people is free time. The shift to daylight saving in April shortens a weekend, which always hurts, and would be much more easily assimilated if clocks were changed at work on Monday around 4 in the afternoon. How to spend October's temporal bonus? It seems a waste to sleep the time away, although this season of dropping temperatures and darkening days invites hibernation. A number of household tasks await attention - the ''if only there were an extra hour in the day'' projects, such as vacuuming behind the refrigerator, sorting through the pile of old mail on the kitchen counter, sewing the missing buttons back on jackets and coats, and cleaning the windows. But a person could kill an hour trying to get motivated to do any of them. Better to read the book that has been sitting on the lamp table since last July when it was purchased for summer reading. Better to hit a museum, to take the long-talked-about family bike ride through the park, to photograph the fire of autumn's canvas, or to plant bulbs in preparation for spring's pastels. Some people may enjoy staying up until 2 a.m. for the pleasure of turning back the clocks at the very moment the extra hour becomes official. Others will savor the anticipation of gaining time whenever they choose tomorrow, holding on to the option the way one might keep a piece of candy in a pocket. However people make the change, they will surely feel the difference, and they may take days to adjust their internal clocks. The transition never feels routine no matter how many decades a person has been ''falling back'' or ''springing forward.'' And that awareness is to be treasured as much as the gift of time or light. © Copyright 2002 Boston Globe Newspaper Company.