Xsales said:
No problem here with time
We don't play those stupid games
Hi,
Stupid games sometimes come back to bite you!
My grandfather retired from a power company in KS and was going to come live in CA. On his way, he stopped at Hoover Dam, both to see it, and also to put faces to the names and voices of two gentlemen he'd dealt with on the phone for quite a number of years, buying and selling power from/to them. He was a system operator, a job done entirely by computer today.
At Hoover Dam, he went on a tour which led him to meet one of the two fellows. The second one had recently retired, and my grandfather got talked into working another year or year and a half in his place, training a replacement to do the job. We went to visit him--I was just a little kid at the time--and he took us thru a lot of stuff one might not see on a tour. Included was a big office room. Right down the middle of it was a line painted on the floor, with a clock on each side of the line, and a small sign under each. One said NV, the other said AZ.
Grandpa told a story on the Zonies that was funny even to a five year old. It seemed shift changes happened at the same time for guys working on both sides of the line. That was fine during the summer, when both States were on the same time. But in the winter, the Zonies P&M'd something fierce, cuz THEY had to work an hour longer than the NV guys. At least according to the clocks on half the wall. Oh, well... and sixty years later, they're probably still whining!
Rick C
