A question, Chief. Let’s say you leave Virginia at 0600 and boogie across the Atlantic to go remind someone who’s boss. Doing this, of course you cross several time zones. Does the DDE reset its clocks (and duty schedules) each time it changes zones, occasionally, upon docking or never?
manhatten –
When transitting west, we advance the clocks one hour each night (or 2 days, skip a day/1 day, skip 2; depends on speed) at 0100. (We lose an hour of sleep)
When transitting east, we set the clocks back an hour each day at 1300. (We gain an hour of work)
In effect, they get us going and coming. And the brass gets an extra work hour each day from every embarked sailor.
Falcon seems to be following me around the board today…
Army sucks dead donkey dick.
:::finally puts down tequila bottle, and salutes without knocking self unconscious:::
Thanks Chief! You’re more appreciated than you could possibly know.
Well, Chief…are you complaining?? 
(I wasn’t going to post in this thread, but after that comment, how could I not!)
“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” - George Carlin
::continuing to drop breadcrumbs so the birdie can follow::
Chief: [inside joke]Haven’t been on the Gator’s bridge much, hey?[/inside joke] I think you might have that backwards; transiting East (i.e, going from North America to Europe), you advance the clocks an hour when you cross into another time zone–transiting West (i.e, going from Europe to North America), you retard the clocks an hour for each time zone.
A bird cage huh? I spent three years on a little tin can by the name of USS McCloy (FF-1038), 371’ long 40’ wide, talk about rockin’ and rollin’. May no one turn on the white lights while your in CIC and I’ll say a little prayer in hopes that your division officer gets lost in after stearing. Take care, Bravo Zulu.
Monty –
You, sir, are of course correct.
Just posting so I can continue to follow Chief around the board…
“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” - George Carlin
Hey, Chief, I found that F-14 pass… it was stuck behind one of Ayesha’s ears.
Wave on!
Good journey, Chief, and we do appreciate all you and yours do.
We’ll keep serving back here, doing daily stuff and keeping the home fires going. But the way you folks serve takes a lot of extra commitment and sacrifice.
It isn’t said nearly often enough, but it is appreciated.
That said, you are one of the funniest, twisted and sneaky people around. Does the Navy offer medals to folks like GBS who keep folks like you happy, motivated and in fighting trim? If not, why not?
(And could you persuade GBS to actually participate in this quagmire of low humor and high mischief? I’d love to meet her. Betcha she’d add some class to the joint.)
That is all.
Veb