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Wrapping My Brain Around the Time Change

Get this, the clocks moved ahead in Canada and the US this morning, but they don’t move ahead in Mexico until April 5th, if the internet is to be believed. But I can’t ignore the time change since I have clients in time zones that are being affected by the clocks changing. Thank goodness for technology so I don’t really have to track this myself!

First of all my computer, iPad, and iPhone all adjust the time automatically, so I never have to worry about knowing what the time is where I am… unless I am in Arizona and connected to a Utah cell tower.

Next, I use a nifty app called LoversClock that lets me have clocks for multiple time zones in my menu bar. It also adjusts the times accordingly. So when I got on the computer this morning, I could see that I am now essentially in the PST time zone and three hours behind EST.

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So this little cosmic upset means I lost an hour to do a job for an EST-zone client that’s due on Tuesday, my deadline moving from 9PM to 8PM. I’ve also lost my advantage with the PST client. He tends to hit me late in the day and I do his work first thing in the morning since I have an extra hour. Now, his 8AM deadline is also my 8AM.

I won’t both advising my clients of this change. They really don’t think about the fact that I’m in another time zone and schedule me as per their time zone and it’s wholly my responsibility to do the conversion and get things in on time. I find that this just makes it easier for everybody.

4 thoughts on “Wrapping My Brain Around the Time Change”

  1. Very complicated this time zone thing. We moved from CA to AZ yesterday, the same day the time changed. AZ of course does not use DST so the time in CA and AZ is now the same.

  3. Last year we left later in April and had to keep adjusting our times. This year we leave on April 1st so from today on we stay on the same time zone as at home in Kelowna. Perfect for us. I just now have to remember that all my executrix stuff is happening an hour ahead of me.

  4. I lost a whole hour walking from the bed to the bathroom this morning where I opened my iPhone to check the weather. My travel alarm clock does not reset itself. Oops. In my momentary panic at having missed breakfast time, I never did check the weather. It turns out they serve breakfast until 9:30 so all that panic was for nothing. As usual. 🙂

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