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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)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It used to be quite frequent, back before cellphones were common.

As for me, my new job is the first dayshift job I've had in 30 years. For me the only real effect of DST was that I would gain or lose and hour of pay. Either way, I always had to stick around till the next shift arrived. It'll be nice to run on sunlight rather than moonlight, even if I am taking a 50% paycut to make it happen.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fascinating to hear from someone who works Saturday night / Sunday morning during the time change. I always thought that would be an interesting moment to experience.

Please remind me because my brain short circuits when I try to remember if we lose an hour or gain an hour: do you get an extra hour of pay in March? Or is the extra hour of pay in November?

Whichever month you lose an hour of pay during the time change, probably seems pretty depressing, and all you can do is look forward to 6 months later when you can work the same shift to recoup that hour of pay! 😄

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When the clock goes back an hour, your shift is an hour longer. I can never remember which month was which. I was usually more concerned with keeping track of the minute than the hour.

Interestingly, I noticed that cellphones would repeat or skip the 01:00 hour, though that might be timezone dependent.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh that's great, then next weekend you will get an extra hour of pay 😄

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ignore the clock, it's the timer thats important. That's all the time clock is. a timer.

If you work 7 hours, you get paid for 7 hours. If you work 9 hours, you get paid 9 hours.

So shift is from 22:00 to 06:00. but the clock is going to skip 01:00 and go straight to 02:00. Numberline it.

NORMAL:

22 - 23 - 00 - 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06

0H - 1H - 2H - 3H - 4H - 5H - 6H - 7H - 8H

SPRINGING FORWARD (01:00 TO 02:00 IS SKIPPED):

22 - 23 - 00 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06

0H - 1H - 2H - 3H - 4H - 5H - 6H - 7H 

OR FALLING BACK (01:00 TO 02:00 IS REPEATED):

22 - 23 - 00 - 01 - 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06

0H - 1H - 2H - 3H - 4H - 5H - 6H - 7H - 8H - 9H

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ah thank you for explaining. That makes sense!