Monday, September 27, 2010

Daylight Saving Time?




A TIME SAVING WHAT????!!!


That was the question I asked when I came in 'late' for my lab just now...

I normally the first person to arrive for chemistry lab, but not today...all thanks to Daylight Saving Time.

When I got into the lab about 10 minutes early according to my watch sebab lab aku start pukul 2pm, and terkejut tengok dah ramai dalam lab...in my mind duk pikir "ni pa awal gila depa mai, siap dah buat lab dah..." and budak budak pun cam hairan tengok aku masuk, so I asked my lab partner

Me: Am I late? Isn't our lab supposed to start at 2?
Zeki: Yeah, its 3pm now...daylight saving time change, started yesterday
Me: a time saving what?!
Zeki: Daylight change
Me: WTF is that?

Serious aku tak pernah dengar term tu,
So si Zeki tu lak tak tau nak explain kat aku so dia panggil lab assistance tuk explain...bla bla...bla... rupanya whole of NZ time changed to an hour ahead than it should be...so cam case aku tu, jam aku tunjuk pukul 2pm, padahal dah pukul 3pm due to the Daylight Saving tu. As it turned out, banyak gak negara ada guna daylight saving ni, those on northern and southern hemisphere. Something to do with summer I guess. Malaysia kat equator so tak ada la guna benda ni since timing daylight kita constant. Depa start tukar time semalam. Tu aku duk hairan apa pasal cafeteria college aku tutup awal semalam...aku tak makan langsung yesterday...makan chocolate ja and some nutbars.

Lab partner aku bukan nak text aku, dia assume aku tido...cam haram, haha...padahal aku tengah lunch an hour earlier. Nasib lab hari ni tak banyak kerja...boleh la balik awal.


So I just learned something new today...nasib tak ada test hari ni, kalau tak free free je fail.

3 comments:

famy on September 27, 2010 at 7:57 PM said...

first time ever heard about it.

feels weird to change time, doesnt it?

Malik Danishmend on September 27, 2010 at 8:46 PM said...

hack yeah... i though i was losing my mind or something, because everything seems to be ahead of me...rupa rupa nya time change punya pasal

erine roslan on September 27, 2010 at 11:31 PM said...

1st time jugak dengar. and it is so funny.. HAHAHAHA~

 

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