Geez, it's like you think we don't do anything but stare at Unfogged all day or somthing!
Now, um, what time are we supposed to make this change? And why??
They moved daylight savings time! So all the computers in teh world are going to explode! Or not.
Just watched it jump from 1:59:59 to 3:00:00 here in the Pacific Time Zone. And I say bring on the early DST. I love getting home when it's still light out. (Yes, I know that I could recreate this effect to some extent during standard time by simply getting up earlier, but some of us will never grow up.)
set your clocks
Dude, we live in the computer age remember? The clocks set themselves now.
Too late for me. my computer reset it's clock, but my alarm clock is old school. Maybe the tai chi teacher forgot too.
4: Yeah, all the computers set themselves correctly and so did the two clocks synched to atomic time from Boulder, CO. That left five watches, four in various cameras, three clocks in the kitchen, and three vehicle clocks to do, and a bathroom clock, along with the VCR, which has auto-switching for the old scheme to do. The partridge in the pear tree can set his own damned clock.
Our congresscritters need to be congratulated for yet again making life just a little more difficult for no good reason at all.
OT, but I liked this, from an Andrew Sullivan reader:
Do you seriously think that women would have been permitted to enter the Mineshaft? Do you think any normal woman (not Paglia) would want to?
People who complain about the hassle of Daylight Saving Time are deeply, deeply misguided. (Unless they're farmers.) Extending DST is literally the only good thing Bush has ever done in his entire life.
What's the rationale for the extension anyway?
IIRC, it's a holdover from a more agricultural America, so that kids could go to school and still have daylight hours to help farm.
Wikipedia doesn't back me upon this, though.
The rationale is to save daylight, which we can later use to pay down the national debt.
What it is is a scam: the feds forcibly "borrow" an hour from you. Sure, they give it back six months later, but they get to keep the interest.
Since Bush/Cheney took over government, I have been setting my clocks on "Middle Ages."
Dairy farmers really, really hate DST, because you do the milking on cow time, and cows are hard to reset.
It's an energy-saving measure, I think -- if it's light out for more of the leisure/evening hours, people go outside more, turn the lights on later, and so on.
Nah, it's just a hidden subsidy for the clock-setting industry.
I always thought it was the barbecue lobby. Weber et al. wanting more time for people to throw steaks on in the gloaming after work, etc.
Dude, we live in the computer age remember? The clocks set themselves now.
ntpclient claims to have set the clock, but it's still an hour behind.
Some guy wrote a whole book arguing against the idea that DST saves energy. Apparently people do turn on their lights later, but they spend the extra daylight hour out driving and shopping and doing other energy consumptious activities. Apparently the biggest backers of it are retailers, barbecue grill manufacturers, and the golf industrial complex.
19: That's what you get for not using windows, you hippie.
Apparently I use certain words too frequently.
Let's make this the "impractical timekeeping schemes" thread. My idea was that everyone would use a dual system--one time that's just UTC, and another that's based on the local sunup time for the county. The sun would always rise at 7:30 AMS ("S" for sunup) or thereabouts, and business would post business hours and other things based on sunup time. Other things would just use UTC.
I say we all just spring forward half an hour and then be done with it forever, no more of this "forward an hour, then back an hour" business.
22: Apparently, one of those words is "consumptious."
Remember that participating in this dangerous time shifting scheme is optional. Call your state legislator today!
Guess who didn't patch their computer systems right? US Airways. Bastards. National airport is a fucking zoo.
And to think, for the last three weeks as we've been scrambling to update our computers at work I've been saying "it's a good thing we're on top of it but, hey, it's not like we're landing planes!"
Love, Becks
Who is commenting from her sidekick while sitting on the runway for the next hour next to an obnoxious 6 year old boy she's trying not to strangle.
If I had wanted to travel with an obnoxious 6 yo, I'd have had my own kids. Oy.
Has uSwearWays truly admitted that? They had trouble ealier this week with the check-in system. I figure they'll say it is more of the same and is not in any way a DST issue.
The last time daylight saving time started I got up, adjusted my watch an hour forward, did the same to the clock on the oven, so that the correct time was staring at me as I made breakfast, and was still two hours late for work because I had managed to convince myself that I had gained an hour instead of losing one. Luckily I'm the boss on Sundays so nobody found out.
Apparently, one of those words is "consumptious."
Apparently you're a crotchety old stick in the mud. Get with the hep new lingo, man!
23: The Trekkies have already done that. It's now somewhere around Stardate 60656.9. Or so. Depending on any subspace anomalies nearby. Maybe.
USAirways didn't admit the problem was related to DST but that was the word throughout the airport, including what the ticket agents were quietly telling us.
The 6 year old child survived to see another day, despite spilling a can of apple juice on me (at that point, it really didn't matter, since he'd already gotten me sticky from the orange slices and peanut butter he was eating) and elbowing me in the ribcage five thousand times.
You're so much nice than I am, Becks.