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Daylight Savings Time
« on: March 07, 2012, 06:04:03 PM »
Just a Reminder that this Saturday Night We set our Clocks Up an Hour. We Change Time on the Second Sunday in March. If You Forget to Set Your Clocks, You Might Be Late for Church on Sunday. Also DONT FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR BATTERYS IN YOUR SMOKE DETECTORS AS WELL.
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2012, 10:31:12 PM »
OK. How do the RR's handle this time change thing. Crew goes on duty at 18:00.  12 hours later, or I mean 11 hours, later they will go on the law. The crew is short changed an hour. Just curious.


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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2012, 09:40:37 AM »
Hmm...That's an interesting question.  Personally I think DST is the stupidest thing I ever heard of, JMHO of course.  You don't get "more" daylight it is just moved around an hour.  I wish they'd just pick a time and stay on it the whole year.  I think Arizona still does not observe it and neither does Hawaii.  I can remember when most of Indiana did not either.

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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2012, 10:22:17 AM »
The actual railroad types need to fill in here, but I think their on-duty hours are always based on counting the number of hours, not on working from x time to x time. So, for labor issues, I don't think it shouldn't make much difference in practice. For record keeping later, maybe.

However when filling out and reading paperwork, like track warrants etc, making sure the correct time is probably more difficult. Not sure if it there won't be an 0200 hour that night or how that works.

And then any overnight trains that are actually scheduled, like Amtrak, they'll be running an hour behind without trying.
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2012, 11:39:28 AM »
When I was a dispatcher, we just counted the number hours a crew was on duty, we did change the clocks at 2am or 3am what ever the offical time change time was, at that time we reset the time on the distpatching program and radio system, so the track warrants would still read the correct, new time.

What was confusion is when Indiana did not change time so I had to make sure the Conrail Dispatchers Knew exactly how much time the crews had left.

It was nice in the Spring, I got off an hour earlier but in the fall had to work and hour longer
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2012, 12:37:34 PM »
back when Indiana didn't change time it was interesting working on the railroad, because we did. 

As to being on duty.

We just added the hour in, so on the computer it might look like we worked 13 hours, but we only worked 12.  It was noted and you basically just ate the hour in terms of the clock, you didn't lose anything. 
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2012, 03:00:50 PM »
The greatest reason we change time is because everybody else (except AZ and HI) does.  It was especially hard on business and logistics that has ties outside of Indiana.
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2012, 09:39:29 PM »
DOWN WITH DST.
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2012, 12:41:17 AM »
Quote from: monty on March 08, 2012, 03:00:50 PM
The greatest reason we change time is because everybody else (except AZ and HI) does.  It was especially hard on business and logistics that has ties outside of Indiana.

Yep, it was a nightmare within General Motors. Personally, I've lived with DST all my life, and I've never had any problem with it. Whether IN should be in the Central or Eastern time zone, is a completely different matter!
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2012, 07:48:32 AM »
DST sure helped out GM.
It should be repealed next
year.
 
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2012, 08:39:04 AM »
Quote from: Southernhoosier1 on March 09, 2012, 07:48:32 AM
DST sure helped out GM. It should be repealed next year.

I'm really not sure what you mean, but knowing what time it is is quite important to most people and businesses. If you don't like DST or GM, that's fine with me, but dealing with inconsistent IN times was always a problem. To me, the problems with DST are blown way out of proportion. But, as I stated earlier, the debate between IN being in a certain time zone is certainly something I leave up to you!
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2012, 10:35:22 AM »
Yeah, right.
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2012, 11:26:24 AM »
Everyone else changing was the problem, not us. We had no choice, like it or not.
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2012, 11:57:05 AM »
Still trying to figure out whats wrong with DST. 
I wish we would stay on it year round...LOL
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2012, 01:15:46 PM »
Quote from: CIOR on March 09, 2012, 11:57:05 AM
Still trying to figure out whats wrong with DST. 
I wish we would stay on it year round...LOL
Haven't we been there, said that already? ;)
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #15 on: March 09, 2012, 01:20:00 PM »
Quote from: indrr on March 09, 2012, 01:15:46 PM
Haven't we been there, said that already? ;)


Just like this thread....  YES.    8)
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2012, 10:21:55 PM »
Having lived in Indiana in the "pre-DST" era, I never understood the allure to having extra hour of daylight in the morning instead of the evening.  Of course my in-laws from New Jersey, even after all these years can't get used to the idea of 4th of July Fireworks having to wait until 10 PM to start...
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2012, 09:15:23 AM »
What Central Indiana wants, Central Indiana gets.
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2012, 10:49:12 AM »
Quote from: Southernhoosier1 on March 10, 2012, 09:15:23 AM
What Central Indiana wants, Central Indiana gets.
and everyone else has to suffer
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Re: Daylight Savings Time
« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2012, 11:32:04 AM »
Quote from: Southernhoosier1 on March 10, 2012, 09:15:23 AM
What Central Indiana wants, Central Indiana gets.
Not like central Indiana wants it either.

This guy seems to be saying what many Hoosiers really think: http://www.zoklet.net/bbs/showthread.php?t=6069

It's not so much that Indiana changes clocks now, because it is nice to stay consistent with others, but the big problem is that anybody changes clocks at all. And nobody really knows a good reason that anybody does...
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