Yes, tonight is the night we in the US set our clocks ahead one hour. At 2AM, the time becomes 3AM.
For me, the time change is dealt with on multiple levels. On my logs, I have to delete a program and so I took out an hour of our filler at the end of the night, Classic Arts Showcase. That was easy, the hard part is my log now had a 1 hour hole that had to be "filled"...so I made another show 1 hour longer. The operator on duty will change the length for me, just before 2AM. On another channel, I had to delete 2 shows and I hid the one hour in another show. That same operator will have to deal with it, along with the first one. Such fun...
On my feeds, it is a different story.
England (where my BBC feeds come from) doesn't change time for 2 weeks. So we have to adjust some feed times, or the BBC changes when they feed certain shows that they deem critical for air in the US. BBC World News America is one of them.
Japan does not change their time at all. So all 3 of my lifestyle shows which feed directly from NHK, must be adjusted twice a year.
Al Jazerra English News feeds from Qatar in the Middle East and they also do not change time. I air the show not 1, but 4 times a day. Some of the feeds are OK being an hour different, but others are not and so they change for 6 months...sigh.
We will see this all, once again in the Fall.
I could definitely get on the end Daylight Savings Time bandwagon.
It's hard to believe what you have to go thru twice a year!!! I am so sorry :-(
ReplyDeleteI love DST, but understand your annoyance. (Plus I'm just not an early riser, so it doesn't affect me in the mornings.) Seems like there oughtta be a better way to handle it all, an automated way to sync things up properly. But I suppose if there were they'd have such a system in place by now.
ReplyDeleteCute graphic Dim Skip. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh and all that was during a week that had our semi-annual Sun Transits in it. Glad to see the week over!
Oh, come now, deal! You want annoyance? Put yourself in the place of those unfortunate employees of a place like Tourneau who have to reset a total of something in the neighborhood of 10,000 watches twice each year. Having been on that end of this task for more years than I like to think I survived. Daylight Saving Time(yes, that's the correct usage) is ok by me. Just be glad we don't all operate on the GMT clock.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I am glad.
DeleteSpeaking of clocks, I have a neighbor who has lots of large clocks in his garage. I bet he sells them from there.