"really shouldn't be let out by herself" department

[leedy]

Frantic cycle to work this morning, absolutely convinced that I was going to miss a phone meeting with my manager, because she's in London, right? But the mail she sent me with the time was in US time! And it definitely said 5, so that's 9 am here, yes? It was only when I was half-way down the canal that it occurred to me that the west coast of the US is in fact eight hours behind us, not eight hours ahead, and a more rational interpretation of the mail would be 1 in the afternoon. Duh.

On the other hand, if I hadn't been racing in at such speed, I mightn't have arrived at Leeson St. at the same time as a man who had a score out on his handlebars and was sightsinging while waiting for the lights to change. Now that's dedication.

Comments

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Oh no, all that effort! I hope at least you're feeling productive, now, having got in early!

I'm just glad to live in GMT/BST, which at least means that other time zones' offsets are offsets from *my* time. They make my head hurt enough, as it is.

[leedy.livejournal.com]

When I am empress, I will institute one giant timezone for the whole world. Er, one that doesn't mean I have to be up in the middle of the night, obviously.

[(Anonymous)]

Damn time differences! I hate it when people ring me at 7.30 pm just because it's working hours where THEY are.

Tell more about the age and appearance of the score-singing cyclist? I have a feeling I might know him... although maybe there's just a lot of that kind of activity going round in Dublin these days.

[kulfuldi.livejournal.com]

Er, that ^ would be me. I'm sure if I'd had more coffee, it wouldn't have happened.

[leedy.livejournal.com]

I'm sure if I'd had more coffee I would have managed to figure out WHAT TIME ZONE I'M IN!

And hee, that'd be funny if you knew him. He had shortish straight mid-brown hair, probably in his early 30s. Sounded like a tenor. :)

[kulfuldi.livejournal.com]

Doesn't sound like who I'm thinking about - clearly this combination of activities is more popular than I had thought.

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Cool! there is potential for an entire cycling choir!

[leedy.livejournal.com]

With interesting Doppler effect if they go fast enough!

[leedy.livejournal.com]

Damn time differences!

Yeah, I deal with it a fair bit because my boss and most of the rest of my department are in the US - I usually have at least one late meeting a week, though they're usually pretty good about having them earlyish their time so I'm not stuck in past 7 or 7.30.

It was my boss scheduling this meeting in PST while actually being in GMT that caused the problem, I think. That and my UTTER STUPIDITY.

[biascut.livejournal.com]

I was quite happily nodding along with you at the "so that's 9am here, yes?" so I would have probably done the same thing. Despite spending 18 months co-ordinating phonecalling times with a girlfriend in Illinois, I still have to shut my eyes and imagine I'm looking down at a map that's slowly moving to my right to work out which way's which. And I really have to think to figure out which way daylight saving time goes.

[leedy.livejournal.com]

Spring forward, fall back!

But yeah, I still have to think about it. And I'm totally with you on the map thing.

[biascut.livejournal.com]

But is it me who springs forward and leaves the clocks behind, or the clock which springs forward and leaves me behind? Or does that question not make any sense at all?

[leedy.livejournal.com]

The clock springs forward! Though you have now provided me with a new layer of potential confusion.

[cigogne.livejournal.com]

Think of it this way: winter's crap, so to compensate you get an extra hour in bed.

[barsine.livejournal.com]

But I sometimes mix up this handy mnemonic, 'fall forward, spring back', I tell myself ...

[radegund.livejournal.com]

But! But! If you picture yourself actually doing that, it wouldn't work. If you fall forward, it's a really awkward scramble to get up so you can spring back, whereas if you spring forward, you're already on your feet and can fall back with grace and ease (unless you, like, landed really clumsily or something).

Hmm. Perhaps I overthink these things.

[sammywol.livejournal.com]

A sight worth seeing indeed! On the subject of time differences doing maths beiore 9 am. in the morning is an error-ridden process. Do not feel bad about it!