EST

jjohn on 2002-10-27T11:01:58

Eastern Standard Time. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.


Indiana

gizmo_mathboy on 2002-10-27T13:39:03

Well, in good ol' Indiana it's still that same timezone it always was (GMT - 5 or is that UTC -5?) :-)

Re:Indiana

jjohn on 2002-10-29T15:09:47

That may be but in God's own Massachusetts, I get an extra hour of shuteye. And that has made all the difference.

Re:Indiana

pudge on 2002-10-30T18:19:25

OK, so that is one way. Any others?

Re:Indiana

jjohn on 2002-10-31T15:44:53

OK, so that is one way. Any others?

Well, EST seems to piss you off, so it's got that going for it. ;-)

Re:Indiana

pudge on 2002-10-31T16:10:24

It ... does? I never realized I had an emotional reaction to EST.

Re:Indiana

jjohn on 2002-10-31T19:23:08

I never realized I had an emotional reaction to EST.

Neither did I until I READ YOUR JOURNAL. Now before you get pedantic on my ass, your complaint in the journal was about daylight savings time. What I like about DST is that when it ends, I get an extra hour of sleep. This is a beautiful thing to me. You might argue that its better never to play with the clock at all. The perceived benefit of the EDT-EST changeover is not unlike getting a tax refund from the government. It so feels good at the time, but it's the government that really really makes out, in that it gets a zero-interest loan for a few months.

To clarify, it's the extra hour of sleep that accompanies the EDT-EST switch that I'm waxing about.

Re:Indiana

pudge on 2002-11-01T00:04:54

This conversation has far exceeded my interest in it. :-)

To Indiana and BEYOND!

jjohn on 2002-11-05T00:37:45

This conversation has far exceeded my interest in it

I was reviewing my info just now -- looking at my recent comments and I had totally forgotten about this interchange! I think we ought to change the topic to EMPIRIAL TIE-FIGHTER VERUS B5 STARFURY: WHO WILL BEAT THE OTHER SENSELESS?

You see? This is why I turned off comment messaging. I found that it provoked me to respond to things I would normally just forget about.

Re:To Indiana and BEYOND!

pudge on 2002-11-05T12:18:28

What are you talking about? I FORGET!