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Have you or anyone you know ever been an hour late/early showing up somewhere the first morning of daylight savings time clock change? (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ml
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I've never made that mistake and I've never personally witnessed anyone else slip either, but surely someone somewhere has. Especially in the years before smartphones & atomic clocks existed, when we had to manually set all our clocks.

I know that's why they always make it happen on a Saturday night Sunday morning so for most people it won't affect their work or school schedule the next morning

but Sunday mornings aren't always schedule-free for everyone. Plenty of people go to work/church/obligations on Sunday mornings,

so surely there's a non-zero chance that some clock mistakes have happened on daylight savings time Sunday mornings.

Do YOU know anyone who's made that mistake?

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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Happens less often now that my phone (and therefore my alarm clock) switches automatically, but it's happened to me a few times in each direction. Showed up to work an hour late and didn't realize it until I walked in the door. Showing up an hour early is definitely preferable but still annoying. I'd just as soon be done with the whole thing. I don't know if it ever really helped but I certainly don't think it serves any purpose now.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'd just as soon be done with the whole thing. I don't know if it ever really helped but I certainly don't think it serves any purpose now.

    Pretty much everyone agrees that we all hate it and it needs to be stopped. It started for crop harvesting purposes in the olden days before light bulbs were invented, am I remembering that correctly?

    For decades people have been begging for this to stop. But government has been so damn slow & inefficient & useless about it.

    Last November or December, you know those months when the hours of daylight are agonizingly short, like only 9 or 10 hours of daylight, I got in a conversation with a couple of colleagues in the break room about this and we researched the current sunset / sunrise times,

    we did some quick math and realized that even if the govt abolished the clock change, the best we could do is have the sun rise at 7am and set at 5pm. Which would still be super depressing because we're all stuck at work during those hours. We want to at least see the sunset when we leave work in the evening, just to feel alive & human for a brief moment, but in winter it's so depressing to leave work and it's pitch black like midnight outside even though it's only 6:30pm 🤣 Yes my work day ends at 6:30pm.

    Bottom line is those winter months are dark & depressing as hell and no artificial clock adjustments can ever remedy that.

    But yeah the government needs to get off its ass and abolish this useless time-change practice.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I've read a few explanations but I feel like I'm missing a core concept. I cannot understand what reasonable person would, instead of moving things around on a schedule according to the season, propose to move all the clocks in the world back one hour, then forward one hour a few months later, forever as a serious solution. It just seems too absurd a solution to such a mundane problem to be a real thing. And yet it is 🤷‍♂️

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    • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    It used to be quite frequent, back before cellphones were common.

    As for me, my new job is the first dayshift job I've had in 30 years. For me the only real effect of DST was that I would gain or lose and hour of pay. Either way, I always had to stick around till the next shift arrived. It'll be nice to run on sunlight rather than moonlight, even if I am taking a 50% paycut to make it happen.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Fascinating to hear from someone who works Saturday night / Sunday morning during the time change. I always thought that would be an interesting moment to experience.

    Please remind me because my brain short circuits when I try to remember if we lose an hour or gain an hour: do you get an extra hour of pay in March? Or is the extra hour of pay in November?

    Whichever month you lose an hour of pay during the time change, probably seems pretty depressing, and all you can do is look forward to 6 months later when you can work the same shift to recoup that hour of pay! 😄

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    When the clock goes back an hour, your shift is an hour longer. I can never remember which month was which. I was usually more concerned with keeping track of the minute than the hour.

    Interestingly, I noticed that cellphones would repeat or skip the 01:00 hour, though that might be timezone dependent.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Oh that's great, then next weekend you will get an extra hour of pay 😄 No, wait, maybe I'm still confused. Let's say for example you always work 8-hour shifts, next weekend will only be a 7 hour shift but with 8 hours of pay, because the clock suddenly skips an hour, right? Wait I'm still confused, but Certainly your boss & payroll have everything figured out.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Ignore the clock, it's the timer thats important. That's all the time clock is. a timer.

    If you work 7 hours, you get paid for 7 hours. If you work 9 hours, you get paid 9 hours.

    So shift is from 22:00 to 06:00. but the clock is going to skip 01:00 and go straight to 02:00. Numberline it.

    NORMAL:

22 - 23 - 00 - 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06

0H - 1H - 2H - 3H - 4H - 5H - 6H - 7H - 8H

SPRINGING FORWARD (01:00 TO 02:00 IS SKIPPED):

22 - 23 - 00 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06

0H - 1H - 2H - 3H - 4H - 5H - 6H - 7H 

OR FALLING BACK (01:00 TO 02:00 IS REPEATED):

22 - 23 - 00 - 01 - 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06

0H - 1H - 2H - 3H - 4H - 5H - 6H - 7H - 8H - 9H
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    • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Back when I was in the field, I had clients show up late 3 times because of it. But I didn't care, I got paid to wait

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    [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Dunno if you'd count this but I play dungeons and dragons with a few people in different countries online, and while we've never been late due to our own daylight savings, I've had our british player be late due to Britain starting theirs late. We set the schedule by the US time, so he gets to manually adjust for a different region's DST.

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    [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Yes, twice that I remember.

    First was somebody turning up late on the Monday for work. Not sure how they got through the whole of Sunday without noticing, but this would have been around 2001, so before smartphones.

    Second was again at work on the Monday. There was an Apple bug which broke the alarm or caused it not to change. I think that was due to the clocks changing but it's possible it was just a general Apple screw up.

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