Daylight Saving Time...

[alexpgp]

Good Morning, Mr. Phelps,

For the next couple of weeks, everything you know about time differences between where you are, in the snowy Rockies of Colorado, and other places where it's useful for you to know the time is turned on its ear slightly.

• Sydney is now 14 hours ahead of you.
  
• Paris is now 7 hours ahead of you.
  
• Moscow is now 8 hours ahead of you.
  
• Baikonur is now 11 hours ahead of you.

Don't bother memorizing this, as it will all change in two weeks anyway.

For now, keep in mind that any time lost due to "mixups" in figuring times will adversely affect the laughably small amount of energy the country may save thanks to Congressional grandstanding foresight in changing the rules for calculating DST, and the Secretary will be very disappointed.

The electrons in this message will disintegrate in five seconds. Or not. Quantum physics is tricky like that.

Comments

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

I'm ready to join in with Arizona and skip the whole thing alogether.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I'm with you!

Cheers...

[tamaraland.livejournal.com]

I convinced one hapless American over many beers at Rosie O'Grady's one night that Russia was so messed up that it changed clocks ahead 4 minutes per day for 14 days rather than go for the full hour at once.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Cheers...

[velvet-granat.livejournal.com]

Erm... except that we are in front of you, not behind. The sun rises in the east ;)

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Yes, such carelessness is one of the reasons Phelps was promoted to a desk job at very near the start of his career. He's right that the time is 7 hours "behind" where I am; he just neglected to mention the time is the next day, so it would've made more sense to say "14 hours in front" of where I am.

What a doofus!

:)

Cheers...

[velvet-granat.livejournal.com]

:)

I hear that one of the oddest things is leaving Auckland for L.A., flying for an idiotically long time and arriving, exhausted, an hour or two before you left (depending on the summer time). So then you have to live that day all over again. Noice.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Is the opposite feasible? Can one leave a continent on this side of the IDL and get back "the day after tomorrow"?

Cheers...

[velvet-granat.livejournal.com]

I am not sure! Will have to look into this.