Saturday, March 31, 2007

Day Light Saving makes no sense to me. You advance your clocks and you pretend its some time you want it to be? Rubbish! Sometime back I attended a seminar on cultural differences between the east and the west. And this is one of the points the speaker had brought up. That Indians live by the biological clock while in the west it is mechanical. And that in India everything follows a cycle, the day follows the night and so on. Which is why we tend to be relaxed about timelines, its not the end for us theres always tomorrow. I agree to some extent but he was bang on about the biological clock. Every morning the alarm on my clock screams it is 7 but my body clock refuses to believe it because it only 6! As I struggle every morning I wonder what the effect of DST be in India, if implemented. How do you tell 1 billion people to advance their clocks? The chaos and confusion it would create....And another excuse to tell your boss why you are late 'I forgot to advance my clock'.

2 comments:

Balaji Chitra Ganesan said...

hmm...Daylight Saving means go home early from Office! You hate that?!! But ofcourse it makes no sense to an Indian Software Engineer who probably never sees sunset!

I agree DST leads to funny situations. Here in California, I would rather have the clock 1 hour ahead even in the winter. In winter sun sets at around 4.30 PM here and its apparent that nobody does any work in the office after that!

DST was apparently enforced to make the sleepy people (no offense!) to get to work early and come back early to spend more money in the evening shopping! Today most people in India's northeast (and techies everywhere) go to work some 5 hours after sunrise! Thats something to think about!

FlyingHigh said...

I don't get to come back home early :(. DST sucks!

Sunset?? Sunrise? What are you talking about ? :P

-Shradha