As a programmer, especially for a wireless phone provider (Verizon Wireless at the time), having to code for time changes was pure hell.  I actually wrote the fuzzy logic that's used to identify call record hand-offs from cell tower to cell tower (which all have slightly different time codes).  Now add in the fact that times like 2:13am can happen twice during the time change back or not at all during the time change forward and it's just that much more fun...
 
 

Last night I had to explain daylight savings to my girlfriend, who admitted that she has no idea what happens or why we do it. After wrapping her head around whether or not you get an extra hour or lose an hour's sleep when the clocks go back or forward, I then had to explain why they do it. After much explanation, she finally got it. But then I headed to Wikipedia to check something, and it turns out I had the whole thing ass backward. I always thought the clocks are changed for the winter in order to give the farmers an extra hour of daylight in the morning. But it turns out the "true" time is the winter time, and the clocks are changed for the summer to give us an extra hour of light in the evening. Just goes to show how easy it is to go through life with a completely botched up idea of something. 

What I've learned over the years:
 
- Farmer's don't use a clock to determine when to do things
- There must be a financially motivated reason why politicians change the time

craigb
What I've learned over the years:
 
- Farmer's don't use a clock to determine when to do things
- There must be a financially motivated reason why politicians change the time

Yes.
 
There's exactly the same amount of daylight as there usually is, regardless of what time we say it is.

craigb
What I've learned over the years:
 
- Farmer's don't use a clock to determine when to do things
- There must be a financially motivated reason why politicians change the time

- Whatever time it is, Americans are always behind it.

paulo

craigb
What I've learned over the years:
 
- Farmer's don't use a clock to determine when to do things
- There must be a financially motivated reason why politicians change the time

- Whatever time it is, Americans are always behind it.

 
Have you been to Scotland?
 
''We will be arriving at Glasgow Airport shortly. Passengers are reminded to set their watches back by 25 years''
 

jamesg1213

paulo

craigb
What I've learned over the years:
 
- Farmer's don't use a clock to determine when to do things
- There must be a financially motivated reason why politicians change the time

- Whatever time it is, Americans are always behind it.

 
Have you been to Scotland?
 
''We will be arriving at Glasgow Airport shortly. Passengers are reminded to set their watches back by 25 years''
 

As a child I was once taken to a part of Glasgow called Castlemilk. I remember thinking even at a tender age that despite what I'd heard adults say, time travel was indeed quite possible.

paulo

craigb
What I've learned over the years:
 
- Farmer's don't use a clock to determine when to do things
- There must be a financially motivated reason why politicians change the time

- Whatever time it is, Americans are always behind it.

I'll have to get back to you on that. 

Am I late again?