China’s version of Daylight savings…
Well, I guess I was wrong, I wasn’t dying and apparently I still have a few good years ahead of me.
As I sat and finished watching the final Conference Session for my Church I couldn’t help but be startled to look out my window to find it pitch black outside at 6pm. Not just dusk but pitch black, should be asleep or at least tucked in bed with a good book black.
So here’s a quick post for Chinese daylight savings.
As I have mentioned before, China is one time zone! Anyone who can conceive that 3040 miles is the span of a single time zone should be brought in for questioning!! So while I’m on one end of the time zone I guess I will get the extremes of this ill advised Jerry-rigging of time allotment.
This is not to say that the Chinese do not emloy a Daylight Savings of sorts, I just can’t make heads or tails of how it makes a difference. At the end of Mid Autumn festival all afternoon activities shift a half hour up. So if you had class at 2:30pm it now begins at 2:00pm. If your lunch break ended at 1:30 it now ends at 1:00. Okay problem solved, everyone things are once again right with the world, we have gained a whole half hour in our afternoons!
Yeah doesn’t make much sense to me either. But hey I’m done with classes on Wednesday at 5:30 instead of 6:10 that’s a plus. Another thing that doesn’t make much sense though is that the students have to be in their dorms an hour earlier now not just a half hour earlier.
Freshmen are required to be in their classrooms from 6:0opm to 8:20pm. They are released at 8:20 then have 20min to bunker down for the night for lock in at 8:40 with lights out at 9:00pm. Yes, I live on a college campus with a bed time and lights out before most 10year-olds are in bed in the States. There are no loud parties, no drinking and no rowdy students to compete with for sleep around here.
So the sun goes down early but seems to rise even earlier with the sun up and streaming fully into my room by 6am! Boy will I be happy to once again live a properly timed city!
Wow, that sounds really weird. I’m pretty sure I’d be like super thrown off about that whole thing. Campus sounds wicked strict! Be glad you’re a teacher!
Life in England is slowly blacking out too. By mid-winter it will be dark at 4pm (maybe I should warn Ammon about this…. didn’t think of that!) and the sun won’t be coming up until about 8:30 – 9am. It’s not so bad a Iceland though, that was l o n g and dark winter living!