LETTERS: CLOCK BATTERIES ARE A BIG PART OF DST PROBLEM

To the editor:

As a collector of clocks, I tend to agree with Joe Sullivan in his plight to put an end to the never-ending changing of the clocks. It's time to let them tick away without interference.

Did you know the life span of a battery is in direct relation to how many clocks you have? If you change the battery in one clock, the battery in another clock instinctively knows this and will die. A few days later, another battery dies and another until all of your clock batteries have been changed.

Then you reset them for daylight-saving time, and the cycle starts all over.

The whole process is quite maddening, not to mention I don't like losing an hour of sleep. So let's all help Joe, (aka Don Quixote) end the clock madness. Next fall when it's time to lose an hour, retaliate. Leave your clock alone. Stop buying cheap batteries, and be an hour late for work.

CAROL POOLE

Jackson