Yes, the magic moment
has arrived once again! Daylight Saving Time is on our doorstep. The coming
night the whole continent changes to Summer Time, so that – no matter how easy
the living may be – we’ll all be suffering from a minor bout of jet lag for the
next two weeks. Don’t speculate on the stock market, I would say. Try not to
operate heavy machinery, and forget about solving a Sudoku. You are not up to
any of these tasks, for the brain functions as if it had received a soft whack with
a sledgehammer.
But if you think
you’re having a head-ache, imagine the
plight of the poor technician who has to re-set the clocks on this stately building
in Prague’s old Jewish quarter! How is he to know that Hebrew letters have a
fixed number-value? And even if he knew, does a Hebrew clock run, well…
clock-wise or counter-clockwise? And if a helpful passing Rabbi were to tell
him ‘clock-wise, my friend’, does that then mean: to the left, or to the right?
Small surprise
that these two clocks do not coincide in any conceivable manner!
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