posted March 31, 2001 11:00 AM            

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So, out here in California, USA (Planet Earth) we change our clocks this time of year...

I guess the Arizonites don't do this, right? Anyone else out there that don't participate in the clock changing?

Don't forget to 'Spring Forward' tonight! And change the batteries in your smoke alarms!

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posted March 31, 2001 12:25 PM            

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Well, our clocks went forward a week ago.

Yup.

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posted March 31, 2001 01:02 PM            

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And mine went back a week ago!

falls back

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posted March 31, 2001 02:19 PM            

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Ours (Massachusetts/Vermont) go forward tonight.

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posted March 31, 2001 03:28 PM            

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We "spring ahead" and "fall back" here in Michigan.

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posted March 31, 2001 04:10 PM            

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I hear arizona, and part of indiana don't participate

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posted March 31, 2001 04:39 PM            

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I, personally, dont participate, so for the next 6 months, I'll be an hour late for all my classes and appointments, unless I have an appointment in Arizona.

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posted March 31, 2001 08:50 PM            

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The time changing was all weird in Australia last fall because they decided to start Daylight Savings early in New South Wales for the Olympics. They called it Knight Time, after the guy who came up with the idea. We went traveling around Australia while Knight Time was in effect, and it got us all screwed up with that on top of the normal time differences. Tish, do you have any idea why NT/SA are half an hour off NSW/QLD/VIC and 1 1/2 off WA instead of one and one?

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posted March 31, 2001 09:28 PM            

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Waitasec. Is this some lame attempt at an April Fool's joke? This is the first time I haven't heard about the time change until the night before.

*eyes Cup_Caddy and all of his "cohorts in affirmation" suspiciously*

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posted March 31, 2001 10:19 PM            

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We don't change our clocks at all in Arizona -- how stupid do you think we are, wanting another hour of 100+ degrees of daylight.

There are also 2 counties in Indiana that ignore it, I hear.

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posted March 31, 2001 11:13 PM            

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No joke, Y2K. I had been skeptiacle myself, so I checked it out http://www.msnbc.com/local/pencilnews/47218.asp

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posted March 31, 2001 11:37 PM            

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Hurm... I don't have enough brain cells to concoct an april fools joke...

(heh heh huh uh huh heh....
he said 'cocked')

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posted March 31, 2001 11:57 PM         

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It's three fifty-seven, here.

Dammit.

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posted April 01, 2001 12:16 AM            

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I used to live in Arizonie, and I always thought it weird we didn't use daylight savings time. After all, the darn thing was invented in Arizona by the Navajo.

At least I'm pretty sure it was invented by the Navajo......

This has been El Cid, reminding you, dead men tell no tales. Plus they smell really bad.

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posted April 01, 2001 03:28 AM            

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i hadn't heard anything about it either, and then my computer's clock did it for me. i'm like. wait a minute.. windows 98 can't play an april fools joke on me!...or can it?

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posted April 01, 2001 04:31 AM            

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I get to get off work an hour early, because I work graveyard through it.

Long Live Daylight Savings!

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posted April 01, 2001 07:46 AM            

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"Fall, fall back" I like. It is a Good Thing. But what's this "Spring, spring forward" bullshit? When I run the world, we're going to always set the clock back every six months and never set it forward, giving us an extra couple of hours every year. Every twelve years would be a Leap Day to put the calendar back on track.

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posted April 01, 2001 11:49 AM            

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All Hail Cheese. I've thought we should do that for years. Yay yay yay!
*doesn't throw anything because someone might get an eye put out.*

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posted April 01, 2001 01:02 PM            

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I've been wondering whose sick, twisted idea it was to have Daylight Savings re-set fall on April 1st this year.

Meh.

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posted April 01, 2001 01:17 PM            

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Cheesie's idea sounds good on the surface, but poeple who work nights know the deep, horrible truth of the end of daylight savings: working an extra hour and not getting paid for it!

This is justified by:
a) "It's too hard to fill out the payslips for an extra hour when it doesn't look like an extra hour,"
and b) "Just make sure you're on shift when daylight savings starts next year, so you get paid for the extra hour!"

But does it ever work that way? Grrrrrr. Getting to 02.00 and setting the clocks back to 01.00 is heart-breaking. And it's effing hard to fill out charts with the time swooping around like that!

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posted April 01, 2001 01:23 PM            

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3:07 down here.

...and all is well.

...for now.

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posted April 02, 2001 01:58 AM            

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I want my hour of sleep back, dammit!

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posted April 02, 2001 06:46 AM            

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So sleeeeeepy....

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posted April 02, 2001 06:54 AM         

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The Contessa's comments gave me another question. What about places like a hospital, for instance, when you have to record when someone got their medication or something? When you make the notations on the chart in the Fall, and you do some procedure at 1:30 AM, do you need to note if it's the "old" 1:30 or the "rerun" 1:30? How about figuring out how long until someone's due again?

Put me in the anti-DST camp.

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posted April 02, 2001 07:07 AM            

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DST was not invented by the Navajos!

You may be confusing it with the fact that the Navajo Nation does observe DST, which means that the portion of the Navajo reservation that's in Arizona observes DST (since their reservation lays/lies in four states, it would be too weird to not observe it).

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posted April 02, 2001 08:30 PM            

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Roup - my whine was because I'm a nurse. It's not so hard managing the DST and non-DST records if the entry is a single event (ie: gave 10mg IM pethidine 01.45 DST; 10mg IM pethidine 01.45 DST end). But I work in the ER and traumas don't neatly begin and end just as the clocks go back and forward.

Daylight savings time was first used during WWI to increase daylight production hours and save fuel. It's been in use on and off in various parts of the world ever since. Here is an article about it:

South Australia is in a half-hour time zone because politicians are stupid, Stenny. We're a little backwater and it was thought being half an hour closer to the time in the busier eastern states would ... I don't know ... solve all the world's problems, probably. Now they're talking about putting us on eastern time, which means we'd be a whole hour out of our natural zone. And far-west places in DST would be three hours out! gah

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posted April 02, 2001 10:44 PM         

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OK, this ties into my major beef with DST. We go screwin' around with everyone's clock, making them lose an hour of sleep, work an extra hour without pay, what have you. The rationale: we want to it to be daylight during certain hours that we have assigned to the clock and the schedule that we have assigned arbitrarily.

Here's a unique idea: instead of changing the clock to meet your preconceived schedule, why don't you change you preconceived schedule to meet the clock? It gets light and dark to early? Whoah, here's a revolutionary idea, get up, go to work, and go to bed at a different time!

Instead, since we are slavishly devoted to these arbitary standards of what time is "appropriate" to go to work and to bed we screw with everyone's clock and mess up their circadian.

An analogy, in my mind, would be like if we re-callibrated the currency every time inflation caused the price of a Big Mac to go up a quarter. We can't mess with the price of a Big Mac! One of the old dollars is worth 0.923 of the new! Everyone trade in your cash for the new ones!

Bullfeathers.

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