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January 16, 2006
I am not Australian, but I like the country. I promise
So for the last few months I've been working the night shift. But most of the jobs I have worked have been later in the evening/night shift, so this is nothing new. This, however, is the first job where I have worked past midnight.
Traffic is generally better at night. It doesn't take very long to get home. I always hated hurrying up to get out of the office only to sit in rush hour traffic. It was so silly to me. When I work day shifts I always ended up staying a few hours extra just to avoid it. The saddest part is that when I didn't stay that extra time, I'd get home about 10 minutes earlier than I would have if I had stayed at work.
The wife got a semi matching shift a while back, so now we get to spend more time together. It's great, we watch some tv and I get to study even. Life has never been better.
Except for one thing. I now hate most calendar systems. Why? Because I can't make them work how I want them to of course, hehe. Here is why:
Now, if you can't figure out why that aggrivates me, look in the middle. There is all that blank area. I will probably not be using the blank area ever. Most of my waking hours revolve around 2pm to 5 am. Most all of my schedules revolve around the same thing.
I can't even schedule it like this in Outlook. You can't tell outlook to display until 2 am the next day, so it doesn't want to make a calendar event that will go past the viewable area. iCal can do that part at least.
Here is what I want things to look like:
Notice the new problem here though. All my times are completely different. Some of you may have guessed, but if you haven't, here is how that is even possible. Enabling time zone support, in advanced. I'm not even sure why this is a pref, but it is.
To view it this way, there is a drop down in the top right of iCal, like so:
And to set it back, you change it to your original time zone
So basically I want to be able to view it like I can in Sydney time, but without actually being in Sydney time. I've been googling around for a bit, and just can't find a work around for that.
Also, if anyone knows how to make Outlook work in the same way, I'd be glad to give that a go.