> Sarah Edmondson-Jones wrote: > > How about following nature and just changing the hours we > conduct our business in, instead of the clocks? Would people be > more upset by the idea of having lunch at 10:00, than having a > two hour time shift and lunching at midday?
As a boy I used to live in a farm. My father was a peasant. He'd raise at around 4 am, do some domestic chores until 5 or 6 and then go to the crop fields. Lunch time was somewhere between 9 and 10. About 1 pm he'd have a snack. At 2 he would head home and have dinner at 3. He'd go to bed maybe at 7 or so. Between dinner and bed time was "kid time" when we kids could talk with him an learn the things we had to do at home (prepare the cheese, hull the rice, toast the coffee bins, prepare the corn...) Maybe those few sweet years of my childhood were so strong that even the most modern gadgets have not been able to dissolve them into the time that oozed away. So -- curiously enough -- clock is something I love. The more precise the better. But I never feel enslaved to what those hands have to say. I like controlling them, make them go faster or slower as it pleases me, always avoiding let them make me faster or slower. I don't care if I have lunch at 10 or 12, as long as I have it because I am hungry and I want it, not because it is "time". - fernando ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fernando Cabral Padrao iX Sistemas Abertos mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pix.com.br Fone Direto: +55 61 329-0206 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PABX: +55 61 329-0202 Fax: +55 61 326-3082 15º 45' 04.9" S (23 L 0196446/8256520) 47º 49' 58.6" W 19º 37' 57.0" S (23 K 0469898/7829161) 45º 17' 13.6" W ------------------------------------------------------------------
