Fall behind - Spring forward
Saturday, October 28, 2006
What a weekend this is turning out to be. First of all, it starts raining all of a sudden (and I mean rain the whole day) ; whereas it should be snowing rite ? Then the whole saga of keeping an eye on our clocks and make sure that you 're benefitted the most. An extra hour of sleep .. aah !!
One thing's sure though -- until now, we've had late evenings - after work you could relax and it felt like time was ticking slow, see the light for like couple of hours even after reaching home. And now you won't. Now, it'll be dark when you leave the office, dark when you get home, dark, dark, dark. Dark until spring 2007.
But now, they are planning to change the rules starting March '07. The time changes would occur in March/November as against April/October. All this means is that from next year, we'll be in "standard time" for ~ 4 months. How on earth would it be standard if its just 4 out of 12 months ?? Beyond my understanding ;-)
I guess you also have heard about the great Mr. Murphy. And you know what happens right ? In the Fall, when we "gain" an extra hour - an extra hours worth of sleep, we never have anything to do on Sunday morning. In the Spring, when we lose the sleep, we always need to be someplace at 8AM ;). And then you got nothing to do but blame it on the time change !
Its gonna drive all those electronic equipments "nuts". I mean the change starting next year. They would still change time in April/Oct. And you gotta manually adjust it to get it right. Manufacturers would be having helluva problem too aint it ? The new models would have to reflect this change and although it wont be that difficult, its still a pain in the neck.
But whatever ... Do remember to change the batteries in ur smoke detectors !! ;-)
Archived in: DST US Saving Daylight April November Fall Spring
Posted by Rajesh @ 11:50 PM; PERMALINK,
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At October 30, 2006 8:30 AM,
ammu said...
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For once, I proved Murphy wrong :D I had to wake up at 8 am on Sunday morning!! So i was happy about the extra hour of sleep....yay!
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At October 30, 2006 7:27 PM,
Rajesh said...
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@ Amrita - shhhh... U don't wanna take chances against him, do you ? ;)
