DST+1

I've not been at all impressed with this extension of Daylight Savings. Of course, DST usually finishes on the final weekend in March but because a whole bunch of Queen-loving runny jumpy people wanted to run and jump about a bit, then all get together for a kangaroos-on-bikes-fest, it was apparently deemed by the powers that be (and who love such sporting displays) that we were to have an extra hour of daylight at the end of each day (and the corresponding hour less daylight in the a.m.). While this isn't a bad thing per se, it has caused a few problems. Firstly, there was the sleeping in. I have an alarm clock that has a calendar built in. It likes to think it's pretty smart by adjusting the time for DST without consulting me. It didn't come to me last Saturday night and ask "Drew, shall I go off DST now, or should I stay on it for a week longer for whatever sporting events you humans are busy watching at the moment?" Had it done so, I would have replied "Thanks for asking, let's go the extra week, shall we?" So my alarm has been going off at 7.45 am all this week, which is why I didn't hear it because I had managed to drag myself out of bed by that stage and was probably ironing a shirt out of alarm clock earshot. The other similar thing to have happened, has been the Outlook system here at work. See, my computer forgot to ask too, whether we were thinking of extending DST this year (which is just so inconsiderate if you ask me), so I've been having reminders come up for meetings that were due to happen an hour ago. Today I had a meeting at 1 pm, so I knew I'd want to nip out before that and grab a bit to eat. But when I started to get peckish, I looked at my computer clock and it said it was only 11 am: too early for lunch. So my mind goes into food-snooze for an hour, then I get a call saying my appointment is here and I look at a different clock and think "Shit, where did that hour go?" The answer to which is, it disappeared somewhere between the time my phone is showing and the time my PC is showing. The upside, is that I looked at the PC just now and it said it was still only 2.30 pm. But my phone says otherwise: it's an hour closer to home time and that's a good thing.