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struggle4progress

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6. Star Trek should have had an episode on Daylight Savings Time
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 08:26 AM
Mar 2015
Spock: So explain to me again exactly how Daylight Savings Time works.

Kirk: It's very simple. At 2A on the first Sunday in November, you turn the clock back an hour. And on the second Sunday in ...

Spock: Wait! At 2A on the first Sunday in November, we turn the clock back an hour?

Kirk: Yup! And on the ...

Spock: So what time is it then?

Kirk: When?

Spock: After we turn the clock back an hour.

Kirk: It's one o'clock.

Spock: It's 1A on the first Sunday in November?

Kirk: Of course!

Spock: And what time is it an hour after we turn the clock back?

Kirk: Naturally, it's two o'clock.

Spock: So now it's 2A on the first Sunday in November? And so we turn the clocks back an hour?

Kirk: No. It's very simple. At 2A on the first Sunday in November, you turn the clock back an hour. And ...

Spock: And an hour later it's again 2A on the first Sunday in November.

Kirk: Yes.

Spock: At 2A on the first Sunday in November, we turn the clocks back an hour?

Kirk: Yes.

Spock: So an hour after turning the clocks back, we should turn them back.

Kirk: No. It's very simple. At ...

Spock: Highly illogical.


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