Daylight Saving Time started last Sunday here, pushing me to being 9.30 hours behind India than 10.30. This time shift was much more worst than the Big Shift that I had coming here from India. Did DST cause disruptions to my schedule? Yes and No!
Sunday Morning Troubles
I had to go to volunteer for Asha's event (will post more about Asha soon!) and had accordingly set the alarm for 9.00 a.m. I wake up in fright at 8.00 a.m. according to my cell watch and think bcos of DST it is actually 9.00 a.m. and my alarm didn't ring! I check on the net and realize that my cell had adjusted itself and it was actually 8.00 a.m. according to DSt and 7.00 a.m. otherwise!! Did you understand wht I said?? Well bottomline is I missed on 2 hours of sleep! For a grad student its a lot to miss on!
The Spooky House
I sure stay in a hi-tech house. When I woke up on DST Sunday, my cell, laptop had all adjusted themselves. My internal clock was the only one out of sync with the time change! Infact WinSCP adjusted itself to 2 hours ahead. I spend many frustrating hours on my Makefile before being enlightened that WinSCP set itself wrong after DST!!! For my friends not yet corrupted by the language of coding, WinSCP is an application and it played havoc with my program that depends on time!
So then what do you do when a phenomenon puzzles, amuses, frustrates, intrigues, etc. etc. you?? Geeks got it right! GOOGLE ye!!
Turns out there is actually a book on DST. I wont waste more energy typing out all that I read about DST. Here it is...
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/k.html
And as David Prerau puts it, changing clocks causes a lot of anecdotes as we Spring Ahead and Fall Back!
