Daylight savings crime
Today, proving Tanya and I were not operating on well-rested minds, we started wondering what would happen if someone committed a crime during the hour that is lost for daylight savings time. How would the police report it? As long as you did something verifiable an hour later, you'd have an air-tight alibi for the time of death. And does the crime really happen the following fall when the hour is returned to us?
Or, what happens if you check in to work at 1:00 a.m. and then check out one hour later at when it is again 1:00 a.m., do you get paid for your hard work? I almost wish I were hourly so I could test it out next year ... or even better, get paid for that extra hour next fall.
Labels: dating, deep thoughts
When I was in the dorm at Walla Walla, our curfew was 1 a.m. on Saturday nights, and on DST day we thought we should be able to stay out until the -real- 1 a.m. Needless to say, the deans didn't.
Posted by
CëRïSë |
3/12/2007 10:10:00 AM
This made me really wonder about what would happen if we decided to reverse some 18th century calendar reform. We might have a whole 11 days in which to misbehave. Fantastic.
Posted by
jerry |
4/26/2007 10:49:00 PM
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