I hate daylight savings time!

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-04-06 02:41pm

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_savings_time

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-04-06 03:52pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Hmm, longer amounts of sunlight in summer thanks to a change of one hour, or not.

Forgive me if I like DST.

What, you can't figure out how to set your alarm an hour earlier?

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-04-06 03:58pm

Kintaro wrote:The hour should be taken away when we are at work, not asleep (or goofing off at night). It's okay durring the fall, though.

Ahem.... When they turn the clocks Back in the fall, the people on night shift are being forced to work a full Hour overtime Without Pay.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-04-06 06:08pm

LadyTevar wrote:
Kintaro wrote:The hour should be taken away when we are at work, not asleep (or goofing off at night). It's okay durring the fall, though.
Ahem.... When they turn the clocks Back in the fall, the people on night shift are being forced to work a full Hour overtime Without Pay.

Oooooh, I hadn't thought about that. I'm really glad Arizona doesn't switch now. Although, last night I could have charged them for an hour that I didn't actually work since we would have jumped forward.

It would suck for the people whose schedules rotate so they don't get the switch on/switch off sides of DST.

Kintaro · Post by **Kintaro** » 2003-04-06 06:31pm

LadyTevar wrote:
Kintaro wrote:The hour should be taken away when we are at work, not asleep (or goofing off at night). It's okay durring the fall, though.
Ahem.... When they turn the clocks Back in the fall, the people on night shift are being forced to work a full Hour overtime Without Pay.

Without pay? Are you sure where you live that is illegal or not that you work while not being allowed pay? It is illegal where I live. You should talk to a lawyer about that.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-04-06 07:10pm

I hate it too. I lost an hour of sleep last night, and when I wake up at 6:30 AM on the weekdays, it will feel like 5:30 AM, and I'm usually more irritable waking up at that time, even if I got the same amount of sleep.

On the plus side, I can enjoy sunlight at 8 in the evening.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-04-06 08:03pm

Kintaro wrote:
LadyTevar wrote:
Kintaro wrote:The hour should be taken away when we are at work, not asleep (or goofing off at night). It's okay durring the fall, though.
Ahem.... When they turn the clocks Back in the fall, the people on night shift are being forced to work a full Hour overtime Without Pay.
Without pay? Are you sure where you live that is illegal or not that you work while not being allowed pay? It is illegal where I live. You should talk to a lawyer about that.

How can you prove it, when you clock in at 11 and clock out at 6... even if the 6 should be 7?

XPViking · Post by **XPViking** » 2003-04-06 09:53pm

Is daylight savings really all that hard? You perhaps lose an hour of sleep for what, one day? If you all hate daylight savings so much why not move to China? They don't practice it and as an added benefit, the time in that country is the same (never mind the fact that China itself spans at least 3 time zones).

EducAsian wrote:Time Change / Time Zones: There is only one time zone in China, and it is eight hours ahead of GMT, so if it is 12:00PM GMT, then it is 8:00 PM in China. China is twelve hours ahead of New York City, and 15 hours ahead of Los Angeles during Standard time, and 13 hours and 16 hours ahead respectively during Daylight Savings Time. China does not employ daylight savings time. In addition, despite its vast size, China is all in one time zone, based on Beijing time.

http://www.educasian.com/info/other.html

XPViking

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-04-06 11:13pm

XPViking wrote:Is daylight savings really all that hard? You perhaps lose an hour of sleep for what, one day? If you all hate daylight savings so much why not move to China? They don't practice it and as an added benefit, the time in that country is the same (never mind the fact that China itself spans at least 3 time zones).

As long as they all aren't moving to Arizona.

Now I'd like to take this space to make my plug for us all switching to 24hour (aka Military Time). In this modern world more people are working at all times of the day and some dangerous mistakes can be made by people mistaking 0300 for 1500 because they weren't sure if it were AM or PM.

My personal favorite is Noon and Midnight. Which one is 12:00PM and which is 12:00AM?

Hint: It's really more accurate to use 12:00 Noon and 12:00 Midnight becuase you can make arguements for either when using AM/PM although it seems that Noon is usually considered 12:00PM.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-04-06 11:16pm

Thanks to this daylight time garbage, the board is now an hour behind my timezone. It annoys me when every single post is more than an hour old.

Kintaro · Post by **Kintaro** » 2003-04-06 11:26pm

LadyTevar wrote:
Kintaro wrote:
LadyTevar wrote: Ahem.... When they turn the clocks Back in the fall, the people on night shift are being forced to work a full Hour overtime Without Pay.
Without pay? Are you sure where you live that is illegal or not that you work while not being allowed pay? It is illegal where I live. You should talk to a lawyer about that.
How can you prove it, when you clock in at 11 and clock out at 6... even if the 6 should be 7?

Hmm, you really should speak to a lawyer about this; they are screwing you.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-04-07 12:53am

I hate it too! And it doesn't even apply here! In fact it doesn't affect me at all! But I hate it anyway, as moral support for my fellow SD.netters!

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-04-07 02:23am

aerius wrote:Thanks to this daylight time garbage, the board is now an hour behind my timezone. It annoys me when every single post is more than an hour old.

Can't you fix this in your profile by adjusting your timezone. I know it doesn't allow for specific TZ on DST but it would make your time match the board.

Or, you could just set your timezone on Zulu time.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-04-07 03:16am

We just ledt DST, I personally hate it because I hate sunlight, but that's just me.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-04-07 10:14pm

Kintaro wrote:
LadyTevar wrote:
Kintaro wrote: Without pay? Are you sure where you live that is illegal or not that you work while not being allowed pay? It is illegal where I live. You should talk to a lawyer about that.
How can you prove it, when you clock in at 11 and clock out at 6... even if the 6 should be 7?
Hmm, you really should speak to a lawyer about this; they are screwing you.

Payroll can just adjust the number of hours on your check. If someon is actually skimming a hour then you have grounds for a serious complaint, cause you probably are not alone.