The Perils of Day-Light-Savings: A Calculated Look at Sentience
I love Philleas Fogg, Meridians, Space Sciences, Concepts of Time (like Time’s Arrow the Time’s Arrow star trek episode wasn’t that bad either) and albeit somewhat pseudo-science philosophical concepts of physics such as reverse-causality, and all that time-based Dr. Who jazz. Unfortunately, this article is very un-Dr.Whoesque and quite bland. But nevertheless, the DST thign was something I wanted to scrutinize upon tinkering with some awesome desktop clock gadgets and wanted to make sure the nuances of time zones and how GMT is perpetually free from the daylight-savings insanity, was lucid.
It’s useful for me to frame things in temporal to London. Chicago is always LondonTime -6 (because during this DST period, London is UTC+1) In Spring to Fall, Chicago is London Time (BST) -6, only because all clocks are moved forward. And in Fall to Spring, London is GMT/UTC/Zulu And Chicago is that- 6 (because the London time goes “back” to normal), but of course so does every other timezone (Chicago goes back to GMT-6, Sydney to GMT+9, and so on. During DST it’s a headache a +1 gets added to all those London GMT+1, Chicagy GMT-5, Sydney GMT+10). Fall to Spring (non-daylight savings time) LondonTime (Chicago time being, now (BST) -6), and now London Time coincides with GMT. I reckon it’s a good clarification and also headache that GMT timezone DST fluctuations never occur; zulu is always UTC. In other words, right now, it’s BST 11:02am, CST 5:02am, and GMT 10:02am. So it’s annoying that half the year all time zones deviate in their relationship to GMT. London is GMT+1 or GMT, New York is GMT-4 or GMT-5, Chicago is GMT-5 or GMT-6 (in respective DaylightSavings and Non-DayLightSavings Months, respectively).
It’s interesting to note that time and time zones are mere derivatives of man-made sentience placed (or sort of dumped, rather) on longitudes. And then again, longitudes are geographical trigonometric man-made units of measurement as well. (more…)
2010/06/16 at 2:30 AM Comments (3)




