Which One Came First?

[pphaneuf]

We did the DST switch-over recently, which is, of course, accompanied by some ranting on my part. Personally, I like it when, in the case of event A preceding event B, the time at which event A happened is before the time at which event B happened. You know, causality and other space-time continuum issues...

So did this mother. Heh.

Comments

[sailorfrag.livejournal.com]

That's what time_t is for!

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

I'd be content with a constant offset from UTC. I don't think that's being too unreasonable, no? It's not like I'm asking for totally crazy shit!

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

That's retarded. That's like saying baby B was born first because they were on a boat that crossed between time zones before the birth. 1:32 EST comes before 1:06 EDT - what's so complicate about that?

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

It's quite retarded, yes. I like to think that I'm a whimsical person at heart, but some things aren't supposed to jump around wildly, to the whims of a bunch of guys in government, for altogether wrong reasons (the Department of Energy recommended against it, if I remember, but they had too much whiskey that day, I guess?)...

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

*flashback to 9th grade math*

you made my brain hurt. :P

Expected more this year

[(Anonymous)]

I expected a bigger rant than ever this year, seeing as they changed the change-over date. It's like you aren't into it too much... Are you getting sensible?!

Re: Expected more this year

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

I am sensible, it's all those people who keep twiddling their clocks at the whim of weird politicians, for who knows what nefarious purposes (because it's pretty clear that the "saving energy" thing is a sham, after the data gathered this year and at the time of the Olympics in Australia).

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

To slightly paraphrase The Hitchhiker's Guide: "Time is an illusion, DST doubly so!" ;-)

Maybe DST is simply an attempt at making sure people don't become completely lethargic by at least forcing them to thinking twice per year?

[grimmwire.livejournal.com]

Which One Came First?

The father, obviously.