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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)

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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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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month 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.