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DST Confusion

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:00:00 +0000

It’s this time of the year again. Working in a global environment, at some point, you’ll be confronted with the daylight saving time confusion.

One example: We have a daily meeting, invited by a colleague from the US and scheduled for 2pm my time - usually. During two weeks in March and October my calendar is messed up, because the US already saves daylight, while Europe doesn’t and vice-versa. The meeting is suddenly one hour earlier - conflicting with other appointments I have scheduled for this time.

Dominik has similar issue.

This is definitely not the end of the world, but annoying. It made me think about daylight saving time in general, again.

I used to have a strong opinion for constant DST during the whole year, because I liked having more daylight in the evening than the early morning. Then I read articles about standard time being healthier. Waking up with the rising sun triggers something in the body that helps us getting started. Changing my opinion to being in favour of standard time. There were times, when I thought using UTC globally would be the best solution. But I guess it will be even harder to know what “time of day” it is in another country. Is 06:00 am the time when the sun rises, high noon or something else?

With age comes serenity. I almost don’t care about DST anymore. The only thing I wish for is getting rid of the switch at some point, because the adjustment is not getting easier.

What are your thoughts on this?

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🥂 Happy New Year

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Dear Reader,

a new year has started. I couldn’t find the time to write a 2023 review yet - a lot has happened - but I still wanted to wish you, and your loved ones, a Happy New Year. May it bring many joyful experiences. I am really looking forward to continue writing here and read your awesome blogs. I really love reading them all. Thank you.

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Home Alone & Rich

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 16:30:00 +0100

It’s that time of the year, where I enjoy watching „Home Alone“. It’s one of those Christmas Movies warming my heart.

Every time I watch it, I wonder how crazy rich the McAllisters are if they can afford traveling from Chicago to Paris over Christmas with 15 people, four of them in first class.

Lucky me I don’t have to wonder anymore: the NYT asked three economists to estimate the wealth of Kevin’s family.

I recommend reading the full article, because it has some neat information in it, for example that Kevin’s parents didn’t pay for the flight tickets. His uncle did.

But if you want the quick answer: the McAllisters are the 1%. To afford the house, the travels and everything they would need a yearly income of >600k USD based on todays standards (~300k USD in the 90s when the movie was shot).

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/movies/home-alone-mccallisters-wealth.html

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