Daylight Saving

Dogs too Reyn. It will take me weeks to have the dog
on winter time

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I hear ya!

If Daylight Savings Time is so wonderful and good for us, why not introduce it all year round?

Here's another thought I just had when they "adjust" it in 2007. Computer clocks will be making their adjustments at the wrong times of the year, unless they'll get a patch to fix that.

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Reyn wrote:

I hear ya!

If Daylight Savings Time is so wonderful and good for us, why not introduce it all year round?

Here's another thought I just had when they "adjust" it in 2007. Computer clocks will be making their adjustments at the wrong times of the year, unless they'll get a patch to fix that.

Have we gotten so lazy that we can't manually change the time on our computers 2 times a year? Cool

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Aw, man! I read the computer to tell me which way to set the rest of the darn things - after I dig out the instructions on resetting each of those unique, little, digital gizzerblinkers.

I'm with Reyn. If daylight savings is so great, just use it year-round.

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I think, when everyone would spend the hour, which we gained today, someone ... e.g. our resp. governments ...

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(Most of my clocks change automatically - from computer over car, dvd-recorder to kitchen clock.
But it really is some work to change the antique grandfather clock [300 years old] plus some other at my mother's home and my manual nautical clock [which strikes the bell!])

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Kitties started up nearly to the minute to the time we would have got up yesterday.

Dairy cattle adjust to EST/DST switches in about two weeks--and they want to be milked ASAP.

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Intrepid wrote:

Have we gotten so lazy that we can't manually change the time on our computers 2 times a year?

I haven't, as I've got 15 million clocks around the house. What would be one more?

I'll just untick the Daylight Savings option to change automatically. Just mentioned it, as it will be screwed up.

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roger wrote:

I'm with Reyn. If daylight savings is so great, just use it year-round.

Can we start a protest march, or something? Laughing

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

(Most of my clocks change automatically - from computer over car, dvd-recorder to kitchen clock.

Yes, exactly! Our DVD player doesn't have an option (as far as I know) to stop it from changing itself automatically. I will have to correct manually after it changes at the wrong time in 2007.

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Noddy24 wrote:

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Kitties started up nearly to the minute to the time we would have got up yesterday.

Dairy cattle adjust to EST/DST switches in about two weeks--and they want to be milked ASAP.

That's not too different from cats. They want to be fed ASAP. Laughing

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Personally, I only reset my wristwatch and one clock in my place. (The 'puter, of course, resets itself.) As for the others, there's nothing wrong with my memory -- I just remember to subtract an hour mentally every time I look at a clock. No big deal. Then, when daylight saving time come around again, all the clocks in the house are quite correct and all I have to reset is one clock and my watch.

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What happens 2007 that can't be done by the radio/atomic clock signals?

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Ive got one atomic clock in a bathroom that will not change. Its now telling me that its Tuesday last. It takes a while for this one to reet because we are in a fringe area for that radio beacon if they all come from Colorado.

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BTW, I understand that A2K clock must be adjusted manually.
See below on this page. You will read:
"The time now is 2005-10-30,xx:xx:: All times are GMT -/+ y Hours."

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Right..

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

What happens 2007 that can't be done by the radio/atomic clock signals?

Well, I just remember that 2006 is the the 90th anniversary of daylight saving time: in the night of April 30/May 1, 1916, it was introduced for the very first time worldwide in ... Germany.

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Merry Andrew wrote:

Personally, I only reset my wristwatch and one clock in my place. (The 'puter, of course, resets itself.) As for the others, there's nothing wrong with my memory -- I just remember to subtract an hour mentally every time I look at a clock. No big deal. Then, when daylight saving time come around again, all the clocks in the house are quite correct and all I have to reset is one clock and my watch.

Omigosh that would be hard (no... impossible) for me. I have to change everything.. even the car clock and the coffee maker. I am glad that the two atomic clocks take care of themselves. (And yes, a2k also had to get changed.)

Right now, I am having a horrible time getting to sleep... it always happens after we've switched from one time to the next. Although <yawn> perhaps I've finally hit the wall.

I've read that in 2007, daylight time begins on March 11 and ends on November 4, because some new damned law goes into effect, extending "daylight savings" another four weeks. Hurumph. Did I mention that I don't like these changes?? Sad

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OT, but a leap second will be introduced at the end of this year.

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A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2005.
The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:

2005 December 31, 23h 59m 59s
2005 December 31, 23h 59m 60s
2006 January 1, 0h 0m 0s

We get one second.
Internationlal Earth Rotation Service

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Piffka wrote:

I've read that in 2007, daylight time begins on March 11 and ends on November 4, because some new damned law goes into effect, extending "daylight savings" another four weeks. Hurumph. Did I mention that I don't like these changes??

Thanks, that solves my question :wink:

[Daylight Saving Time is known as Summer Time in most of the world - and the rest of the world just agreed on the actual dates - of course, the US must go its own, it seems to me.]

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