timing
“Are we late?” Calliope asked.
“Henny and the birds think we are right on time,” said Thalia.
“People sprang the clocks forward in the middle of the night,” said Urania. “There is a reason why they do it — I can’t remember…”
“Oh! Can we share the quote about a clock-driven world?” asked Calliope.
“Seems like a match made for a sunshine-filled spring morning,” said Thalia.
Imagine time as a landscape: long hills of open afternoons, unfenced horizons of hours, the vast and immaculate freedom of time which, until so very recently, all of humanity knew. But foreshorten the horizons, fence the days, restrict the hours, erect deadlines, add punctuality, alarm clocks and speed — enclose the commons of time, in other word — and people will feel pressured, even if they know how to live in a clock-driven world.
~Jay Griffiths, A Country Called Childhood
Oh, the twice-a-year hiccup in our diurnal cycles! How about an alternative way to contradict "time?" Clocks, analog or digital, with the time stopped at some random place? Right twice a day. Or clocks with no hands? That would only work with analog timepieces that had hands to begin with.