They’ve moved it to March 11 instead of the regular sunday in April.
FYI
That means you could potentially be an hour off for every appointment you have scheduled from March 11 (the new Daylight Saving Time, 2007) through the first Sunday in April (the traditional, often programmed-into-software calendar date).
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/raskin/8280;_ylt=Aj_H7gAA1jEFpX2UmN.gM0whLpA5
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...you could potentially be an hour off for every appointment you have ...
You realize you're talking to a buncha contractors dontcha?
You've probably just given us "one more excuse".
LOL
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
LOL!
I'm going to assume that all of us will be on time....johnny on the spot, it's our clients that are going to mess up the schedule!
One of the Windows updates corrected for the new Daylight Savings.
jt8
"One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop." -- Colin Powell
That patch is only for Windows XP and up though. If you have 95, 98, ME, or 2000, you have to find a third party patch for it. I've seen people call this a mini-y2k problem. Unfortunately microsoft is just using it to try to get people to upgrade to Vista.
If you're using 95 or 98, you need to get out of the dark ages ;)
jt8
"One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop." -- Colin Powell
HEY! Be nice.
I've got XP in the drawer here, guy who gave it to me claimed it was better than my 98 SE. Then he said I oughta install a CD burner to make sure I didn't lose anything important. Yeah, right, like the time I'll use for all that.
DW tells me to just go get a new computer...PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
using 95 or 98, you need to get out of the dark ages
Aw, come on now, a nice, stable 98 installation is a lot less stressfull than the 17-18 Service Packs a body has to put on to Win2k to get it to only half as stable.
That, and my budget does not allow for buying a vista-compatible (1 GB RAM, etc.) machine just to have the latest bug-riddled o/s from Redmond . . . Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
can you tell me what would be the advantages of switching to vista. im using xp
just curious .
Thanks
My laptop is 5(?) years old. I'm using XP and have absolutely no intention of switching to Vista until I need a new computer - hopefully another 3 years or so.
No benefit to upgrade at this time. I KNOW how XP works. I don't need to learn vista!!
XP is pretty mature and robust. (Like me????)
Edited 2/17/2007 11:08 am ET by rwjiudice
""That means you could potentially be an hour off for every appointment you have scheduled from March 11...through the first Sunday in April...
How do you figure? You'd have to be pretty dense to go that long without figuring out that you haven't changed your clocks.
Changing clocks is one thing, getting your pda, emails, phone, computer, network, etc to be right is going to be a pain. It means that everyone who electronically schedules will have to manually/mentally adjust.
I would hope that anyone who is smart enough to use all those programs/devices is smart enough to change the time on them.
God doesn't call the qualified - He qualifies the called.
HRRUMPH!
All the people with blinking clocks on their VCR's just gave you the bird after that last statement.
Think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch?
All the people with blinking clocks on their VCR's just gave you the bird after that last statement.
I think those folks are called "12 O'clockers" to denote someone who is so tech challenged to not even be able to set the time on something.
jt8
"One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop." -- Colin Powell
"All the people with blinking clocks on their VCR's just gave you the bird after that last statement."
All the people with blinking clocks on their VCR's can bite me.
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Move the time 1/2 hour and leave it alone!!! Just get used to it and the time changes!!!
My kinda guy.
I always get screwed up, never know if I'm late or early. Just wrong. Makes no difference whatsoever which day they choose. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Why can't they move the one in the fall until after Halloween, seriously?
It's always the Sunday before Halloween. Never noticed this until I had kids going out trick or treating.“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds..” – Hume
They didNew Federal Law In Effect
2007: March 11 - Nov. 4
2008: March 9 - Nov. 2
2009: March 8 - Nov. 1
2010: March 14 - Nov. 7
2011: March 13 - Nov. 6
Communists!!! I am just beginning to enjoy my well lit morning solitude and they are stealing from me another month. I think what happened is one day a pm person awoke early and said wow look at that sunshine..I will borrow it for the evenings..but if he saved it where is it?
Some of you may be too young to recall the phrase..Communism is underminining the morale of the working men of America. Well I am a working man of America and Daylight stealing time undermines my morale.
chuma
How sad is this, but that's the best news I've heard all day. Now I can take my kids out on Halloween an hour later and it will still be light out.
I love it. “The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds..” – Hume
why cant they just do away with it, for good.
Have you seen the high school kids outside on a winter morning?
I can't imagine waiting for a bus on a cold dark morning. “The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds..” – Hume
they do it here, life is not fair huh.
I think daylight savings time is great. It's the only way to get people to drag their lazy butts out of bed earlier in the mornings during the summer.
He who angers you, controls you.
lazy people are lazy people, not going to change because you changed the clock!
Doug
"lazy people are lazy people, not going to change because you changed the clock!"
Sure they are. If they have to be at work at 7:00, and 7:00 occurs an hour earlier underdaylight saving tiem, they're gonna get up and go to work.
Try to get them to show up at 6AM during the summer and they won't be there.
A guy with money to burn may well find a gal who wants to play with fire.
I believe it's still in place for kids going to school. The bus picks up the high school kids at 6:30 around here. In the winter without daylight savings, it would be pitch black at that time.
So you could say just make the day start earlier all year long. Well a 6:30 sunrise in the winter would be 5:00 sunrise in the summer. Nobody would want that because then obviously, sunset would come an hour earlier too and then we wouldn't be able to be out at night.
The best solution would be to allow schools to start later. Kids can't learn that early anyway, it's medically proven. “The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds..” – Hume
When I was in college a couple of years ago, I always had a one of my construction classes (usually surveying lab or concrete lecture) at 7:30 am. Walking to class in the dark with freezing ran, sleet, and snow falling on you for a mile each way is not that great of a way to start your day. And there was usually just enough wind to make an umbrella completely useless. We had more than one occassion in that kind of weather where the instructor was late or just didn't show up. Always made the class real happy.
Move to Arizona, they dont participate in daylight savings time changes.
I think one other state but not sure.
Doug
Indiana
“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds..” – Hume
Indiana started observing DST in 2006. Hawaii and Arizona are the only two states at this point.
Indiana
And they had to, too. The line ran about half-way, east-to-west, through the state.
I remember summers in the suburbs of Peru, IN, having to remember to cipher the tv schedules to know when to steer the tv antenna towards the several cities that would (mostly) come in. Or, having to leave an hour early, before heading east to a shopping mall, lest one arrive after they closed.
DST is mostly to stop grousing by dairy workers, so that they can set their alarms for 0400 instead of 0300--since the cows care not a whit for the mechanical temporal machinations of compulsive Man.Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Just read this thread...Arizona did...It's great...
>>Move the time 1/2 hour and leave it alone!!! Just get used to it and the time changes!!!<<I'm with you on that. I could never understand how changing was agood thing.
" I could never understand how changing was agood thing."
And I could never understand why people DON'T think it's a good thing.
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. [H.L. Mencken]
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html
Thanks fer the link - Interesting stuff.But Gunner can still bite me.(-:
Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man. [Francis Joseph Spellman]
You'd like that wouldn't ya. :)
Think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch?
And I could never understand why people DON'T think it's a good thing.
Could you please tell me how its a good thing?
If your argument is that it gets the lazy people up and on their way earlier then I think you have no argument!
How does daylight help lazy people get up and get going earlier? Thats almost funny!
As people were pretty adaptable, there is only so many hours of sunlight in a day, dont matter where the little hands are on the clock.
I wake up around 4:30 - 5:00 every day, daylight time or otherwise, doesnt have anything to do with the sun. Our bodies tell us how much sleep we need not the damn sun!
The argument that it helps the farmers is another funny comment, I grew up working on the farm, where the clock hands were located didnt have a whole hell of a lot to do with what needed to be done and when it needed to be done.
Doug
Edited 2/16/2007 11:52 am ET by DougU
It gives us another hour of daylight in the evenings, when people can actually use it. People aren't gonna get up af 4AM and do yard work, just because they have an extra hour of daylight before they go to work. But they WILL use that hour of daylight in the evenings. Changing the clocks basically means you're getting up an hour earlier, and everyone else is too. Seems pretty simple to me.
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age [Lucille Ball]
It's still the same # of daylight hours it just assigns a different # to it is all.
Summertime here the sun sets at almost 10 pm do I need daylight at 10pm?
Now the energy consumption for morning hours light verses dark actually has some merit.“A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.” —James Madison
People aren't gonna get up af 4AM and do yard work,
Well then dammit they should! :)
I dont know, cant remember the last time it would have been light out at 4AM, daylight savings or not.
Doug
Last summer solstice, it was light enough at 4 am to mow the lawn.And I don't mean straining yer eyeballs to see, or using a flashlight, either.It was also still broad daylight at ten pm.
i am trying to be normal, i really am, but until i get there at least i have breaktime. ~segundo
I grew up working on the farm, where the clock hands were located didnt have a whole hell of a lot to do with what needed to be done and when it needed to be done.I also. Always messed up milk production for a while. Although one year (I think during the winter) we left the clocks alone. What a nightmare remembering what the rest of the world was doing. Interesting experiment though!
I vote for one single time zone for the entire world !!
Then EVERYONE knows what time it is...
There's only 1 time zone in China!
(of course, they have "local" time also)
And while we're at it, let's get rid of this AM/PM nonsense and just have a 24-hour clock.
But then JarHead won't know what time it is when the big hand is on the 12."The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." - Ronald Reagan
You see !Now THAT'S what I am talking about !I could conference call uncle Frank in Zimbabwe, and cousin George in hong kong, and say, Hey, it's 3 pm !! What are you doing, sleeping, or making breakfast ??!!?And another thing...How does the sun know to change when it's highest in the sky, because noon is an hour earlier one day, than another ???Is God on daylight savings time ???
i am trying to be normal, i really am, but until i get there at least i have breaktime. ~segundo