A clock does two things. It acts as a timer, marking how much time has gone by and indicating how much is left, and it gives you your position—that is, where, or when, you are at this very moment in the sea of minutes and hours. “What primarily the clock does,” Heidegger wrote, is “to determine the specific fixing of the now.” Twice a year, though, it doesn’t, as you are now groggily aware. At exactly 2:01 A.M. on the second Sunday in March, “now” becomes one hour later, ushering in daylight-saving time and ushering out an hour of sleep. And, at 2:01 A.M. on the first Sunday in November, the clock is turned back an hour; in an instant, “now” becomes “then,” and we live sixty minutes all over again.
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Published on March 12, 2017 10:06