Time

Time is relative. I think this is a simple statement. But I understood the meaning of this practically by experience.
I knew there were time difference and how it is Night in western hemisphere , when we are having Day time in India. That was the basic idea I had as a child looking at the Globe.
In my first trip to Malaysia I experienced the two and half hours time difference . I started in the night in India and by the time I reached after traveling just 4 hours it was already morning there. All I felt was just sleepy. I understood why every time my hubby came to India he used to have his break-fast very early in the first few days. Thanks again to time difference since India lagged behind.
It took couple of trips to Malaysia to understand that, the clock was set for their convenience (I don't know the exact reason). The time difference which should have been one and half hours has become two and half hours because of the time they have set. That is the reason the sun rise in KL is at around 7 a.m. and sun set is around 7 p.m.
On my trip to America all count of time was lost and I traveled starting from Malaysia on a Saturday morning and landing on a Saturday evening, even though I had traveled for 22 hours.
The next thing I noticed was, there were some 3 time zones in America and the time difference between the East and West is around 3 hours.
That is when I understood that India also could have had 2 or 3 different time zones, as Assam and Punjab fall in the East and the West. But for our convenience we have Indian Standard Time. Actually Pakistan is half an hour behind us, even though Lahore and Amritsar are just 20 kms apart.

Slowly I got used to the idea of different time within America, and I was hit by another concept. In April one Saturday night I was told all clock was to be set one hour forward. This happened again in last Saturday night of October. Clock was set one hour behind. This they do for day light saving I was told.
This was sort of beyond comprehension to (dumb) me.
This year we were in Anand's place and Anu, Srini were visiting us. Suddenly it was the time(to) change (being last week end) and Saturday night the clock changed and so Sunday morning 8 a.m. became 7 a.m. I called one of my friends over phone thinking it was 8 a.m. decent enough time to call, but understood it was only 7 a.m and the clock had already been set behind one hour. (I was expecting this to happen on Sunday night) . Anu was thrilled as she got one more hour to spend with her brother and so when we started it was 4 p.m. which was actually 5 p.m. the previous day. (Have I confused the readers enough , that is the basic idea you see).
Add to this confusion that while I was at Anand's place in Tuscon, Arizona, he said in that place the time does not change for day light saving. So I need not worry about the clock. But still I had to think about what time it was for Anu who was in a different time zone, as her time had changed.
One of my innovative friends back home who has two children in different time zones in America has set three clocks in her house, one Indian time and the other two the time of their kid's place. I am sure she will be changing the time in the clock((s) twice every year .
Now Srini is giving me another input saying, from next year, they are going to change the dates of day light saving time to March middle and Nov. middle as they want to save more day light so that people could be more productive.
Well all I know now is I am going to lose one Sunday while traveling back to KL as I am starting on a Saturday night flight which will reach KL Monday morning 6 a.m.
Just by traveling 20 hours I will have to compensate the 12 hours gain I had while coming here by losing it now.