Rant!

[anghara]

I HATE "daylight savings time". I really really REALLY do. With a passion. ALl this running around and changing clocks over - have I got them all? the one in the car is fussy and it takes some finesse to set - so do I just leave the fricking thing as an hour OUT for half a year and forget about it? - the feeling of a wrongness to the day on which the change takes place, aaargh. So it gets dark, people. For frick's sake, just live with it.

An extra fillip was added to my resentment this morning.

When I bought my bedside clock, it came with a blurb that it AUTOMATICALLY sets itself for teh wretched daylight savings thing. As in, on the night that DST is supposed to come on, the clock flicks forward or back an hour, AUTO-FRICKING-MATICALLY. You bet I snaffled it up. One less thing to think about, one less clock to watch, one clock which will ALWAYS be right.

Yeah? Yeah. Well, the thing has a little computer inside of it. A computer that's programmed to do the DST thing when it USUALLY comes on, in April.

Except that this time, and forever more, it came last night.

You guessed it. The clock doesn't reset. It WILL, however, reset on the night that the OLD DST was supposed to change over. So instead of having an appliance that makes my life simpler, I now have a clock which I will have to think about resetting not TWICE a year but FOUR times a year - twice to manually change it to the proper time when the time changes DO happen, and twice to change it BACK to the proper time for when they were SUPPOSED to happen. And the fanfare of "change your clocks now" only happens when the real DST change occurs, so now I"ll have to track the clock and remember when the "Real" change happens - because remember this happens at 2 AM and there is no way of knowing, when I wake up on a given morning in April, whether the time is correct or whether the thing had reset itself at 2 AM that morning.

AAAARGH.

I am so not happy

Comments

[guinwhyte.livejournal.com]

One of the upsides of living in Arizona: no DST. I still have to know when it changes because most of my company's clients are on DST (sometimes figuring out how many hours ahead of us they are is a pain in the rear), but at least I don't have to change my clocks.

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

time.gov is my friend here. I use it to check my time when stuff goes haywire.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

useful, in theory - but in pracrice, when I wake up in teh morning, I'd like to be able to trust my damned clock without having to rush out and check a website to see if it's flipped over or not.

DOn't mind me. Still cross. I'm drinking a gallon of coffee, I should mellow out shortly.

[ellarien]

Does the clock have a switch to turn off the automatic reset (for use in AZ/HI, for example)? If so, at least you'd only have to do it manually the usual twice a year.

[writerjob.livejournal.com]

I didn't understand any of that
about the clock.

But it does confirm me in my dislike of Daylight Savings
because it is not only unnecessary ...
it is complicated.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Clock woes - it's like this.

The clock is set up to AUTOMATICALLY spring forward or fall back at what USED to be the dates for that change. It will probably do its job faithfully when those dates roll around.

However.

We have ALREADY changed to the spring-forward an hour ahead. I had to set that manually. But the clock lives in blissful ignorance of this, and at teh prescribed time in April when the DST changeover USED to be it is likely to spring forward automatically - ANOTHER hour forward - a change which I will have to manually shift back now because I've already done the forward-turning manually, this morning.

Reverse for fall - it will fall back two or three weeks early, according to the current set up, because THAT date has been changed too. So I'll have to adjust for the automatic change which is now no longer accurate, and when teh fall-back day DOES roll around i'll have to adjust manually again to compensate.

Blankety-blank DST.

[david-chunn.livejournal.com]

All of this woe so that rich old white men can play golf after work. Seriously. And that whole saving money thing isn't clear-cut and I doubt the numbers would hold up to close scrutiny.