In the UK, as in many countries, they have implemented a ‘daytime saving’ method for many years now to cash in on the long summer days.

They do this by moving the clocks one hour ahead of ‘real time’. The UK, for instance, is normally two hours behind us, as South Africa is ‘ahead’ of Greenwich Mean Time. However, as the northern hemisphere moves into spring, which is our autumn, they move the clocks on an hour (which came into effect the previous Sunday), which gives the UK gloriously long summer days from June to August, with daylight lasting until after 9pm.

We could do the same thing here – we already have long summer days, but if we moved the clocks on, it would mean us also enjoying longer days and the sun rising in summer at around 5.30am, instead of around 4.30am, when dawn breaks in mid-summer.

With longer days, this may help to control baddies’ operating times… and with a curfew say at 10pm, the police could pretty much control things. However, when this was discussed in local intellectual circles, the thought was that criminals are so blatant these days (ask Pep Stores) that they have extended their operating hours to pretty much cover day and night.

But imagine if we could turn the clocks back – and I mean not just by a few hours, but a few years. It would mean no more masks (the same intellectual circle, who can be decidedly grumpy, commented that it appears that in this area, we are already there, as no one bothers to wear a mask anymore) and no more clean hands.

Perhaps there would be a bit more tar on the roads too and water in the taps (remember those long-forgotten days), or even electricity… And perhaps it would also mean the return of glory days for Bafana Bafana, who have just suffered the ignominy of losing to Sudan.

Kids would be back in school every day, and may even see the guys playing football and rugby again. It would also mean going back to the days before the optic fibre trench diggers, who get decidedly aggressive when they are not paid on Friday afternoons and threaten to stone passing motorists in Union Street.

They also do a great job of ruining the water pipe infrastructure (which was already in ICU before they moved in with their clumsy spades) and re-arranging the pavements. It may also just mean going back to a time when people were a tad kinder to each other, a little more considerate and did not throw their Heineken bottles out of their car windows.

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