Changing the Time Change

I worked in the timekeepers’ office of the Atlanta Post Office for many years.   The Atlanta Post Office has thousands of employees. 

Time cards were on a board  near each work station.  We timekeepers picked up the cards of the people that did not show up, either late or not showing up at all.

On the Sunday of the time change and the following Monday has a big burp in attendance.  A lot of people come in late, early, or not at all.  They changed their time wrong on their alarm clocks.  Sometimes they are one or two hours off most of the time, regardless of “springing forward” or “fall backwards”, some come in  one or two hours late.

It has been at least 40 years but I still remember one lady’s excuse for her tardiness.  She wrote on her 3971 form:  “Y’all don’t give us enough time to get here.”

Anyway, lawmakers are considering eliminating twice twice a year, all together.  I think they are considering making Daylight Savings Time, the regular time all the time.

For what it is worth, I think it will improve tardiness. 
If one spot on the map, the Atlanta Post Office, a couple of hundred people forgot to set their clocks or sat them wrong, imagine how many that would be all over the United States.  A lot of working time poof! away.