Daylight lending
This morning I decided to take a crack at waking up a little earlier and seeing how it went. I put my alarm clock (cellphone) sufficiently far away from the bed that I would have to get out of bed to switch it off. Then I set up the thermostat so that it would not allow me to actually freeze in bed overnight. It worked well - and, it turns out, better than I thought!
So, at about 8.15 I wondered out to find the streets jammed with cars. I decided to cut my losses and cycle in to work because the bus was a.) not to be seen and b.) travelling at walking pace anyway. Got to the university, got decidedly peckish at 12.30 or so, so moseyed over to the Hare Krishas for my plate of rice and slop. As I was walking along, the bell tower thing, manned by a devoted and no doubt crazy camponologist dude (dudette?) - I heard them playing a surprisingly lucid (for a 100ft brick tower with bells at the end) Tchaichovsky Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy the other day - seemed to toll 13h00, i.e., far too many rings for 1pm. So, ok, no problem with that, 24 gongs might get a bit tiresome at midnight, but keeping up with the times, so to speak...
Back in the office, an announcement came through on the intercom (built in to the telephone, few things are more terrifying than phones that start talking loudly with no warning), claiming that the departmental seminar was about to start... and I thought, gosh, that's late... You would think that the penny had begun to drop, but no, Matthew merely stared hard at his clock, and decided it was one of those things.
About 20 min ago someone kindly told me that Florida switched over to daylight saving on Sunday.
Right.
I see.
My day has suddenly started making sense.
And the weird thing is, everything, the whole city, the works, has switched an hour later. Imagine the CHAOS if SA tried daylight saving! It would be like the Essenwood/Musgrave debacle twice a year! I'm all for it!
posted by Matthew Jones @ 1:00 PM
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Not to pick nits, but it was a switch OUT of daylight savings. There's so little daylight in the winter that it's not worth saving, I guess. Er, at least here in the frozen north, where I walk to and from work in the dark during the winter.
That said, I love me some daylight savings. In the summer, I like that I can leave work at 6 pm and still feel like there's day left. During the winter when it's totally dark when I get home, I feel like I must have spent 18 hours in my office.
Oh, and also? My MS degree involved some satellite data that was all timestamped in GMT. I'd nearly finished the whole study when I realized that I was using ground data collected in the US in the SUMMER, stamped with the local time - and daylight savings. I'd done the whole analysis displaced by an hour.
That day I did NOT love daylight savings.
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