Remember that Saturday night last fall when an extra hour was tossed out there to be used as we pleased? Maybe you used it sleeping, maybe you saw half a movie, perhaps you spent 60 minutes on a midnight shopping spree. It could be that you were ahead of the curve and drank like you meant it. Whatever you did with it, they want it back this Sunday morning.

A good number of Americans on Monday will be desperately trying to remember if they changed their clocks early Sunday morning and if they did it the right way. For us that would be ahead an hour thus making 2am actually 3am without even having to say “abracadabra.” However, I’m guessing that most of us will be muttering “Spring Ahead, Fall Back” or “Spring Forward, Fall Behind” before, during, and after the un-ceremonial clock setting.

About 70% of the world’s citizenry will be similarly mumbling something sometime this spring as we move into or out of Daylight Saving Time. A big chunk of those mumblers will be somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere but there are quite many of them south of the Equator also. Between now and early May people around the globe will be waking up some random Monday wondering if they will be on time for work.

As near as I can tell from my online research, there are no countries that lie on the Equator observing any sort of time change. To be thorough about this I am willing to accept the challenge and spend a summer sailing to as many tropical islands as possible to confirm this hypothesis limited only by the funds available to me through grants, endowments, and/or crowd funding.

That’s what I think. Really. How ‘bout you?