For people who work hourly jobs (like myself), how do they do wages over Daylight Savings Time? I mean, in the Spring, do people just lose an hour of work if they work the graveyard shift? And during the Fall, do they have to work an extra hour?
No. Daylight Savings Time doesn't actually shorten the day. It just moves the day an hour forward for a certain length of time in the year, and an hour back the rest of the year.
So, if daylight saving time moves things forward during the school year (which it does) I find myself going to school "an hour earlier." Though according to all the clocks it is the exact same time.
Likewise, when it goes back I can "sleep in an hour" even though I'm getting up at the same time.
(Okay, that sounds reversed to me, but hopefully it conveys the point).
If it messed up your shift - and it might, but I don't think so - most places use time clocks so it wouldn't matter that the time changed, likewise, a time sheet would show it) it would only do so the first night.
But while I worked graveyard shifts I don't remember working DST. I remember painfully working the morning of it, starting at "four" when it was five.
There's 23 hours on the clock one day during the year, and 25 hours on the clock 7 months later. It doesn't change things over the course of a year, but over a pay period, which is only 2 weeks long, it does shift things for those working the graveyard shift... it has to. I mean, the clocks may recognize that there is a time shift, but the people are still going to be clocking out at their usual time (because that's when the replacements come in), which would be shifted an hour due to either the beginning or end of daylight savings time.
It won't mess up my shift, unless I happen to be on call when it ends (which I doubt... I don't think I'll have weekend call even if I get a full-time position). Since I don't start until 4 or 5 in the morning, the change will have already taken place. But there are a couple people in the lab that do work graveyard shifts (9 pm to 5:30 am), and I'm just curious what they do when the shift happens. Do they just accept the loss of the 2 am hour when DST begins and work an extra hour (though it's not an extra hour on the clock, the 2 am hour does repeat, so they would be working a 9.5 hour shift) when DST ends?
Frankly, I find the whole idea of Daylight Savings Time outdated. It may have been beneficial back when people used candles and such for light, but it doesn't make much sense now, and tends to cause more problems than it's really worth. But, that's just my opinion.
What I meant was that you may get moved back or forward an hour to go along with DST. But the amount of hours you would should be the same; the companies I worked for tended to do that for people working those shifts. Maybe they were just big companies though. You would probably be told to clock out an hour "earlier" or "later" but you would probably work the same amount of hours.
I've always thought DST was outdated myself; I hated having to get up earlier in the day. It's like going through jet-lag, but without the travel - it can mess you up for quite a while if you have a full schedule.
But, see, I don't see how that would work in the long run, unless they just changed the schedule for 7 months... I mean, we have 2 people working the graveyard shift, then we have 7 people that come in for morning rounds (varying hours between 4 and 8), three or four of whom stay for all of the morning shift, then three or four people come in for the afternoon shift. Since we only have three shifts, and they're set shifts (5 - 1:30 for morning, 1 - 9:30 for afternoon, and 9 - 5:30 for graveyard), I don't see how the flex of it would work out.
Just an update, since we 'fell back'. The nurses that morning were complaining that they had to work 13 hours (actually slightly more, because lunch doesn't count)... they clocked in and out at their usual time, but had to work that extra hour during the time change.
For our department, our graveyard people only had to work 9 hours instead of 8, since we have 8 hour shifts instead of 12 hour shifts like the rest of the hospital (or so it seems).
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So, if daylight saving time moves things forward during the school year (which it does) I find myself going to school "an hour earlier." Though according to all the clocks it is the exact same time.
Likewise, when it goes back I can "sleep in an hour" even though I'm getting up at the same time.
(Okay, that sounds reversed to me, but hopefully it conveys the point).
If it messed up your shift - and it might, but I don't think so - most places use time clocks so it wouldn't matter that the time changed, likewise, a time sheet would show it) it would only do so the first night.
But while I worked graveyard shifts I don't remember working DST. I remember painfully working the morning of it, starting at "four" when it was five.
It won't mess up my shift, unless I happen to be on call when it ends (which I doubt... I don't think I'll have weekend call even if I get a full-time position). Since I don't start until 4 or 5 in the morning, the change will have already taken place. But there are a couple people in the lab that do work graveyard shifts (9 pm to 5:30 am), and I'm just curious what they do when the shift happens. Do they just accept the loss of the 2 am hour when DST begins and work an extra hour (though it's not an extra hour on the clock, the 2 am hour does repeat, so they would be working a 9.5 hour shift) when DST ends?
Frankly, I find the whole idea of Daylight Savings Time outdated. It may have been beneficial back when people used candles and such for light, but it doesn't make much sense now, and tends to cause more problems than it's really worth. But, that's just my opinion.
I've always thought DST was outdated myself; I hated having to get up earlier in the day. It's like going through jet-lag, but without the travel - it can mess you up for quite a while if you have a full schedule.
Like I said... just a mild curiosity of mine :)
For our department, our graveyard people only had to work 9 hours instead of 8, since we have 8 hour shifts instead of 12 hour shifts like the rest of the hospital (or so it seems).
So, mystery solved :)