Daylights Saving Time
So DST happens early tomorrow - 3 weeks ahead of schedule. All 'cuz the Yanks want to save some $$ and energy in some dumb ass scheme that they think will prevent people from turning their lights on an hour early.
Of course, I don't think they took into consideration the time and $$ its taking to make this time change 3 weeks early. Tomorrow, my health authority will have a considerable amount of people on-call and on-site checking servers and testing time accuracy on thousands upon thousands of medical equipment. Forget the hundreds of hours its taken to patch servers and time sensitive equipment with coding to change the clocks early. It has probably cost more to make this change then there would be in any savings from not turning the lights on.
I guess what makes it most amusing to me is this energy "savings" that this is supposed to do, is coming from the one country that wastes its energy and resources faster than any other country on the planet. The sheer excess of waste and want of the USA is not going to be saved by turning the clock ahead three weeks early.
It boggles the mind that this was seen as an energy saver. And that the rest of the world, for the most part, are having to comply with this US government change. US reliant on oil? Apparently, the rest of the world is reliant on US time.
How f*%^#d would they have been if the rest of us had stayed on the regular DST schedule? Alright - some chaos for everyone but could have been fun. And temporary - 3 weeks long before all was right with the world again.
Anyway, lucky me is on-call and gets to log in at 4:30 am to check all my servers. The one time of day I can sleep ...
So DST happens early tomorrow - 3 weeks ahead of schedule. All 'cuz the Yanks want to save some $$ and energy in some dumb ass scheme that they think will prevent people from turning their lights on an hour early.
Of course, I don't think they took into consideration the time and $$ its taking to make this time change 3 weeks early. Tomorrow, my health authority will have a considerable amount of people on-call and on-site checking servers and testing time accuracy on thousands upon thousands of medical equipment. Forget the hundreds of hours its taken to patch servers and time sensitive equipment with coding to change the clocks early. It has probably cost more to make this change then there would be in any savings from not turning the lights on.
I guess what makes it most amusing to me is this energy "savings" that this is supposed to do, is coming from the one country that wastes its energy and resources faster than any other country on the planet. The sheer excess of waste and want of the USA is not going to be saved by turning the clock ahead three weeks early.
It boggles the mind that this was seen as an energy saver. And that the rest of the world, for the most part, are having to comply with this US government change. US reliant on oil? Apparently, the rest of the world is reliant on US time.
How f*%^#d would they have been if the rest of us had stayed on the regular DST schedule? Alright - some chaos for everyone but could have been fun. And temporary - 3 weeks long before all was right with the world again.
Anyway, lucky me is on-call and gets to log in at 4:30 am to check all my servers. The one time of day I can sleep ...
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