it’s 5pm, daylight savings time. I really want a coffee, but I have to stop myself. You see, when I was dozing in my bed this morning, contemplating getting up, I kept checking the time on my phone, which I use as my bedside clock and alarm. And my phone kept giving me pleasent times of the day, 8am, 9am, 10am. I got up when it hit 10am. Now, I had no reason to doubt that it was 10am, because when I checked the clock on my shelves it said 11am, and daylight savings started last night, and my phone is a wonderful piece of technology that adjusts the time difference for you. So I got up, at 10am, the old 11am, and turned on my computer, as I am wont to do in the morning to read the newspaper.
Now here’s where it gets confusing, because my computer was saying the time was now 12pm. 12pm? My computer is also a wonderful piece of technology that adjusts for daylight savings time all by itself. But I was terrible perplexed. My phone had gone back and hour, and my computer had gone forward and hour. I didn’t know who to believe. So I did what any normal person does when their technology fails them, I called my mum. Oh woe, she confirmed it was indeed 12pm, and that my computer was right and my phone was wrong. And On closer inspection, I realised that the time zone my phone was set to was London, which just happened to be ending daylight savings on the day Sydney was starting, hence my phone going backwards, my computer going forwards, and me losing two hours of the day instead of just one. Fie!
The upshot of this is that because this has taken place on the last day of my holiday, and I have to go to work tomorrow, I will probably have trouble getting enough sleep tonight due to my extra long sleep in today, which means I’m depriving myself of coffee this afternoon, in case it affects my ability to sleep tonight. Which means that I, a devoted coffee drinker (and fresh from a week in brisbane with terribly mediocre coffee and being in sydney where I can get good coffee many places), am now craving coffee.
I think I’ll go have a beer.