Daylight Savings

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  1. How many hours worked day shift on Sunday?

    • 67
      12 hours
    • 2
      13 hours
    • 1
      too sleepy still to care

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Okay a friend and I are having a disagreement about daylight savings. She's adamant that since she worked Sunday dayshift she worked 13 hours, since night shift only worked 11. I agree that she woke up an hour early but still only worked a normal 12 hour shift. What's your opinion? There is a Starbucks gift card on the line here!

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I'm confused as to how she would think she worked 13 hours. The time change occurred on the night shift when the time changed from 01:59 to 03:00 one minute later. The day shift of 0700-1900 is 12 hours. It's 12 hours the day before and after the fall back night and the day before and after the spring forward night. The length of the day shift is never affected by this.

This is why I wanted to quote her, she said something like she got there at 0630 but it was really 0630...just didn't make sense to me. I was actually bummed cause it was my overtime day so I only got 7 hours of OT rather than 8 =(

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Y'know, there are people out there who--when you hear things like this--you don't argue, and you certainly don't wager. You just back away slowly, while smiling. Distract them with something shiny and bouncy while you vacate the area! :)

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This is why I wanted to quote her, she said something like she got there at 0630 but it was really 0630...just didn't make sense to me. I was actually bummed cause it was my overtime day so I only got 7 hours of OT rather than 8 =(

So if she got there at 06:30 which was "really" 05:30, if she left at 19:00, wouldn't that "really" be 18:00 by that logic?

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So if she got there at 06:30 which was "really" 05:30, if she left at 19:00, wouldn't that "really" be 18:00 by that logic?

Yep I'm with ya on that. But that's why I told her to show me her time card to settle it. And I asked on here in case I was wrong and someone could explain it in a different way.

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Day-Shift tries to share our pain (those of us that work nights past 2 AM) when it comes to Day Light Savings, but they cannot! We work an extra hour in the Fall when the time changes (for some reason that is always a busy shift for me) and we work 1 hour less in the Spring. All Day-Shift has to do is adjust his/her sleep schedule for one day. Big deal!

Tell your Day-Shift friend to go to sleep an hour earlier then normal for one day in the Spring. That should fix his/her non-problem.

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Get a chai tea latte.... ummmm, my fav

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Sometimes when people can't grasp simple things like that, I wonder how their logic affects everything​ else in their life.

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Hmm wondering if the two people who voted 13 hours could explain their thinking.

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I was wondering if the two people who voted for 13 could explain how they figured that.

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I work with someone who insisted that without DST, it would eventually be "dark at noon." I'm like yeah, if we ONLY set the clocks back every year without ever setting them forward again, or vice versa. But she kept saying her piece about darkness at noon. I didn't bother trying to explain much further.

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