Will having 1 less hour this month make it harder for you to reach payout?
By JJ
@JolietJake (50190)
March 11, 2018 4:55am CST
I'm sure that 'lost' hour isn't going to really make a difference for anyone.
If you go by the myLot time-stamp on discussions, there was a 1 hour 10 minute period this morning that no discussions were posted.
Of course, it was actually only 10 minutes between them, but one was posted at 1:59 AM Central (all discussions are posted using the time where the myLot home office is located) and at 2 AM the 'clock' myLot uses advanced one hour, which meant the next discussion 10 minutes later was posted at 3:09 AM.
And now I am sitting here wondering how that would work in the fall when the clocks go back one hour.
There would be several discussions posted between 1 & 2 AM...and at 2 AM it would become 1 AM again...so there would be a BUNCH time-stamped between 1:00 and 1:59 for that day.
Okay, I think I am getting a headache now...
If you go by the myLot time-stamp on discussions, there was a 1 hour 10 minute period this morning that no discussions were posted.
Of course, it was actually only 10 minutes between them, but one was posted at 1:59 AM Central (all discussions are posted using the time where the myLot home office is located) and at 2 AM the 'clock' myLot uses advanced one hour, which meant the next discussion 10 minutes later was posted at 3:09 AM.
And now I am sitting here wondering how that would work in the fall when the clocks go back one hour.
There would be several discussions posted between 1 & 2 AM...and at 2 AM it would become 1 AM again...so there would be a BUNCH time-stamped between 1:00 and 1:59 for that day.
Okay, I think I am getting a headache now...21 people like this
20 responses
@owlwings (43902)
• Cambridge, England
11 Mar 18
@BarBaraPrz My little cat, Mephistopheles, usually wakes me by rattling at my door at six o'clock precisely for his breakfast. Nearly always he's on the dot. I am wondering whether he has a built-in clock or whether (more likely) he can hear some neighbour's alarm clock (which is inaudible to me) and has learned to associate that with his food time.
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@BarBaraPrz (50102)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
11 Mar 18
@owlwings I think Scar's clock changed a few weeks ago when he started getting Mike up even earlier than he had been.
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@owlwings (43902)
• Cambridge, England
11 Mar 18
Well, not everyone's clocks change on the same date, so even if looks as though you posted twice as many discussions as normal between midnight and 3am, you'd probably get the same number of responses from people all over the world as you would have done anyway.
I rather wish that we could lose a day, rather than an hour. Then I might be able to know the results of the lottery before it was drawn and make myself several million in the time it took to change the calendar! 
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@yukimori (10182)
• United States
11 Mar 18
@JolietJake It's even more weird when you consider that the Navajo Nation is the only part of Arizona where Daylight Savings Time is observed. They do it because their territory includes parts of New Mexico and Utah, which follow DST, so this way the time is consistent across the entire Navajo Nation.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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11 Mar 18
@sharon6345 Yes, for your time zone the final daily update would be the one right after 1 AM
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@JolietJake (50190)
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11 Mar 18
Which is why I said "If you go by the myLot time-stamp on discussions" because that changed for everyone at myLot.
It gets weird having 5 time zones here (or 6-7 if you consider Arizona and Hawaii never changes the time...but Alaska has 2 time zones) since each zone changes time at 2 AM according to that time zone. When Eastern time 'falls back' an hour in the fall, for one hour it and Central will have the same time...then when Central falls back it will have the same time as Mountain for an hour...and then when it falls back it will have the same time as Pacific for one hour.
Okay, time to change the subject
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
11 Mar 18
No wonder.I think I am getting a headache now after reading this.
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@yukimori (10182)
• United States
11 Mar 18
I have a headache, too, and our clocks never have to change because most of us just don't do Daylight Savings Time here in Arizona! 
Stinks when you guys change yours, though, because I actually have to put some brain power into figuring out what time it is in other states. Then by the time I get it figured out, it'll be time to fall back and the whole process will start over again.
Stinks when you guys change yours, though, because I actually have to put some brain power into figuring out what time it is in other states. Then by the time I get it figured out, it'll be time to fall back and the whole process will start over again. 3 people like this
@BarBaraPrz (50102)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
11 Mar 18
@JolietJake It's half an hour later in Newfoundland...
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@JolietJake (50190)
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11 Mar 18
Arizona, Hawaii, and Alaska screw me up because I never know what time it is in those places.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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11 Mar 18
It gets really messed up since America has 4 time zones, and each of the zones changes time at 2 AM according to the local time.
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@BarBaraPrz (50102)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
11 Mar 18
@nela We used to change it at the end of March, too, but a few years back it was adjusted. Same in the fall, used to be end of October, now it's early November. That means we get the summer time for longer now.
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@BarBaraPrz (50102)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
11 Mar 18
Did anyone ever tell you that you think too much?
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Let's see . . . you lose an hour now, but then gain an hour later . . . which means in the end you don't really lose or gain 
@toniganzon (72542)
• Philippines
12 Mar 18
Overthinking can really give one a headache...now how about not thinking anything at all?
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@FourWalls (77155)
• United States
11 Mar 18
Hey, I survived last month with three fewer days!
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@RasmaSandra (87452)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 Mar 18
Our time gets changed on March 25 so we are not on springtime yet. That makes things even more confusing. So I am not worrying about anything just going at my own pace.
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@anikoonline (3250)
• Hungary
11 Mar 18
I don't think that a lost hour has anything to do with our payment.
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@GardenGerty (165029)
• United States
12 Mar 18
Thinking hurts. I believe I will be fine when it comes to payout, except for taking a vacation.
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
12 Mar 18
i had more problem getting up for work this morning..oy..
@JudyEv (359866)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Mar 18
I started getting a headache in the third paragraph. I think I'll try to forget about it all. 
@Mike197602 (15517)
• United Kingdom
12 Mar 18
I now take pills to reduce my blood pressure and other pills for reducing my mentalness...as I'm now on these pills I don't give a f*ck....love it
@kobesbuddy (78856)
• East Tawas, Michigan
12 Mar 18
I have no idea what difference one hour makes. They should just leave our time alone, period.
