Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for November 06, 2022

The missile will still impact with the asteroid, just not where and when you hoped it would.

Don’t worry, the asteroid will miss the station and destroy earth.

At least you’ll have an extra hour before it strikes.

DST causes a serious discontinuity in space-time. We’ve been lucky so far………

Daylight savings in space?

Ah, the rocket must have been a repurposed Mars Climate Orbiter.

If all of his calculations were correct before (without taking into account of daylight saving time) it should still do what it hit the target, it will just be one hour earlier at 11:00 A.M. with clocks that have been changed back to standard time.

There would actually be a problem if he had done the calculations and then reset the missile intercept time to fall back – then it would be an hour off (too late).

There’s a little memory aid I give my students to remember the time change.

If you fall, you want to Fall Forward so you can Spring Back.

He also confused metric and Imperial in his calculations.

Plan B. “If the asteroid hits, you won’t be wearing those helmets, they’ll be wearing you!”

With thanks to Jerry Seinfeld.

Now I understand. The Missile is running on an Alexa App it knows when Daylight Saving Time ends. Resets the missile clock, and it slows down. However the asteroid is just a rock, with no clock. As a result the missile misses the asteroid by 1 hour. Why do we have Daylight Saving Time? It will kill us all in the future.

I forgot all about Fall Back time. But I remembered when my PC had the right time. Though my little EV has more bells and whistles than I know what to do with, it still expects me to tell it when Day Light Saving Time has expired.

Thanks for the reminder!

Wouldn’t it be easier just to move the station?

Funny

The saved after all because he failed to account for the time zone difference.

Happy Standard Time everybody!

Splat.

Plan B should always involve red helmets.

In the immortal words of Jean-Luc Picard… “Abandon ship! All hands abandboom”

Not sure why you would need daylight saving time in space.

If Dr. Mel launched the missile before the time change, the time change wouldn’t affect the outcome. It’s just that the impact would occur at 11:00 a.m. whatever local time the space station uses.

People keep saying “Daylight Saving” time, when it’s actually “Standard” time this time of year. We go to “Daylight Saving” six months later.