Butter Behavior

Room temperature butter takes way to long to happen, and it never fails that I remember that it needs to be room temperature when I'm starting the recipe.  In hopes of fast forwarding the process I decided to lay the butter in the window and see if the sunshine helps speed things up.  If your thinking just melt it a bit in the microwave do not do this, it will mess up cookies and make them flat and the consistency is always wrong.  I'm no butter connoisseur I'm just saying zapping butter does my recipes no good.