On Saturday night, New York and London will be only four hours apart.  That's because -- for reasons that defy logic -- the U.S. is switching to Daylight Savings Time on March 11, two weeks earlier than normal. Europe will catch up when we "spring forward" on April 1.  But that means that for two weeks, the USA will be one hour closer to the rest of Planet Earth. When it's 12 o'clock in Washington DC (Eastern Standard Time), it will be just 4 p.m. in London (Greenwich Mean Time.). And when it's noon in Los Angeles (Pacific Standard Time), it will be 7 p.m. Londontime.   

Here's a bit of trivia for ya:  The inventor of Daylight Savings Time was a Briton named William Willett. His great-great grandson is Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, whose biggest hit was a song named "Clocks"!  (Everything I've ever learned, I've learned from Wikipedia).

Way up here in northern Europe, our days are already getting quite long, but on the wrong end.  The sun is already shining bright as day by SIX in the bloody morning!   And it certainly doesn't help that our bedroom faces East. The Two Crabs are looking forward to springing forward, if only to catch up on our sleep!   

As for the evening, the sun is now setting over London at 6:00 p.m., and it gets pitch-dark by about 6:30 p.m. In about three months, the sun will be setting closer to 9:30 p.m.!  Yup, I think we're ready for summer already.  I think the Queen should give us some sort of reward for having survived a second dreary winter in London!