Gatwick reduced to anarchy by 'computer glitch'
Airport clocks failed to go back on schedule
Posted in Management, 29th October 2007 11:48 GMT
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A "computer glitch" at Gatwick airport which lead to the clocks not going back on Sunday morning led to travel "chaos" as "arrivals and departures were advertised an hour late", provoking nonplussed passengers to besiege check-in desks.
The system was supposed to automatically adjust clocks for the end of British Summer Time, but "inexplicably failed to do so", the Telegraph reports. The glitch also meant Ceefax, Teletext and the Gatwick website displayed the wrong times.
Gatwick spokesman Stuart McDonald said: "It was spotted at 6am. They have been working on it all day. It should have been automated. I have never heard of this before. It is certainly not a manual thing."
In a statement, the airport operator said that the snafu only affected six or seven inbound flights, and the clocks were reset by lunchtime.®
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COMMENTS
Let's just start the working day at 8AM
IF ONLY start the day at 0500 start work at 0545 Mon to Fri I would gladly work from 0800 if the Boss would let me
Let's just start the working day at 8AM
IF ONLY start the day at 0500 start work at 0545 Mon to Fri I would gladly work from 0800 if the Boss would let me
Extreme Summer Time
Speaking personally, I'd be happy if we used quadruple summer time in the winter and quintuple in the summer - that way it'd always be light in the evening when I want to go for a walk in the park or relax in the garden. I don't give a crap if it's dark while I'm at work - I have the work lights on anyway even in summer as I work in a building without skylights.
As for saving the planet ... who're you kidding? It's about saving the human race, the planet can survive quite happily without us. If we don't show intelligence then we'll drown - so what? We get what we deserve.
-Kamal.
There's only one reason...
"Can't we just abolish this daft clock changing business altogether? I have yet to have someone explain to me a plausible reason why we do it anyway."
We shove the clock forward an hour in the "summer"because we're lazy. If we made the middle of our active day local sun-noon, we'd use as much energy in the morning as in the evening. It would mean having a GMT day of 4 am to 8pm, on average.
Our current working hours were developed to allow *business* to make best use of the most commonly (across the year) daylight hours, when work was the purpose of most people. Factories worked 6-til-6 shifts. Clerical workers needed better light, so started their day later. As more people moved into the clerical fields the "standard working day" became 9-to-5 instead of the 7.30-4.30 the factory floor became as working hours were reduced.
This canting of the working day prompted the introduction of BST as a way of sidestepping everyone's desire to rise later.
And it's stoopid. 12 noon should be when the sun is highest in the sky. If you want to save energy, change the times you work not the time the clocks tell you it is.
Mid-day Sun
The October change is a revision to *NORMAL* time.
You know, Sun overhead at midday (at least at Greenwich). We've been running an artifical time shift since March.
All those who want to switch to BST permanently are really European apologists.
Here is a thought. Let's just start the working day at 8AM to align 8 working hours evenly around the Mid-day Sun! Farmers can work when they like; it's not like they are the majority of the working population any more.
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