No Coffee This Morning

[madshutterbug]

Wasn't re-stocked by the weekend crew. Oh well.

Cell phone didn't update to Daylight Savings Time last night. Hooray for Cingular/AT&T... and most annoying, as I use the cell for an alarm clock quite regularly. Being the paranoid sort I am, last night I also set the hotel room clock & alarm, so I'm not behind.

But, after doing some rigamarole to make sure computer was ready for the oddness that is DST in general and this year specifically, the computer did not make the jump either. My Palm Pilot did (that was part of the rigamarole).

I dislike Daylight Savings Time.

But really, just now it's Time To Shower.

Comments

[marjai.livejournal.com]

I dislike Daylight Savings Time.

It's not so much DST as it is the gov't mucking around with something that was fine the way it was.
Again.

Or Microsoft not adequately adjusting to the event.
Again.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Can't speak for madshutterbug, but I'm not all that thrilled with DST even when the government isn't mucking about with it. (For reference, early enculturation may be a factor: I grew up in Arizona, which -- except for the Navajo Nation -- does not participate in DST.)

[marjai.livejournal.com]

Whatever fondness for DST that I might hold is solely based on the extra hour of sleep I gain in October when we 'fall back.' I know there are places that don't follow it. I know that it's useless to farmers. I would love to see a serious, non-biased analysis of what's gained and lost with & without DST.

On this particular day, however, it's about our electronics having to adjust to something new. We were making jokes at work about it being worse than Y2K...

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I'm sure in a lot of ways it was worse than Y2K, if only because there was only a one-year lead time.

[madshutterbug.livejournal.com]

Didn't grow up someplace that wouldn't observe DST. States around me didn't, but mine did. Didn't like it then, either. And, from working years on Night Shift, whatever pleasant aspect of that extra hour of sleep you claim got lost in the wash, because it was an extra hour I worked.