During the night from Saturday to Sunday, at 3 o’clock in the morning, our clocks will suddenly be an hour ahead. They will therefore have to be delayed to be on time since it will only be 2:00 a.m. when it was 2:59 a minute earlier. Luckily we sleep during this crazy moment.
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Let’s imagine. The time change takes place not on Sunday at 3 a.m. but on Wednesday at 3 p.m. What joy in the stations… We know all the difficulties of the SNCF to make its trains depart and arrive on time. The hundreds of TER, RER and TGV trains scheduled to arrive between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. will probably arrive (as often) between 4 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. clocks stations, suddenly moved back, will indicate between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. These trains will therefore be on time. Of course theequation is only valid when switching towinter hour. At the end of March, the same trains will arrive at their destination between 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., which will complicate the life of passengers.
The puzzle of a time change in the middle of the week
Ditto in offices and factories. How to manage this day of twenty-five hours? Does the company have to pay an overtime hour? Do employees have to leave an hour earlier? Should we negotiate with the unions? Should there be branch agreements? As for the appointments registered on the electronic diary completed a few months earlier, will they be put back on time? And how do you explain all this to the employees of this North American subsidiary who are used to sending emails at the end of the day when the Sun, across the Atlantic, is not yet at noon?
Short. The time change takes place, of course, at the time of lowest economic activity, that is, in our weekly rhythmic societies (why, by the way?), in the middle of the night from Saturday to Sunday. When what time it is doesn’t really matter.
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