Daylight Saving Time

Richard Andrew x64

So how many people believe their Windows machines will correctly adjust themselves this weekend for DST? What is the consensus about how much chaos there will be?

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RandyBeck

The windows DST update for the changes as of 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp\_dst

Joe Woodbury

I have the update and don't care if it works or not. If it doesn't, I'll just set it myself in 1.5 seconds along with all my other clocks. (Several years ago, I dual booted between W2K and Win98. I had inadvertently left both systems on auto-change for DST and sure enough, when I got around to booting into both, they did as instructed. Ever since, I assume DST adjustments will fail and thus am pleasantly amused when any device correctly changes the time.)

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Ed Poore

Richie308 wrote:

So how many people believe their Windows machines will correctly adjust themselves this weekend for DST?

Eh, what's the problem, mines always updated itself nicely but that may be because of the Demon stuff on it.

Miszou

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Shog9 0

Hopefully Outlook starts working again. They patched the servers, i patched my PC... and now i can't use the calendar anymore. Which is, sorta the whole point of running Outlook... Stupid software. :sigh:

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JimmyRopes

Richie308 wrote:

So how many people believe their Windows machines will correctly adjust themselves this weekend for DST?

Go to kb928388[^] to find out the settings that should be in your registry for your time zone. Go to your registry to a key such as [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\Alaskan Standard Time] for Alaskan Standard Time. You should be able to find your timezone in the timezone list. See if the TZI value matches what was specified in KB928388 for your time zone. For some timezones there is an additional Dynamic DST entry. See KB928388 for details. If appropriate go to [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\Alaskan Standard Time\Dynamic DST] (substituting your timezone for Alaskan Standard Time) and see if the keys specified in KB928388 exist and are correct. If these are set correctly the DST rollover should work properly. :) If they are not set correctly then you will have a problem. :( It's not rocket science! :rolleyes:

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Todd Smith

Mine already caught on fire. I'm pretty sure it was a DST related bug.

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Raj Lal

i haven't met a single person who can explain properly why do we do day light saving ? can anyone throw some light

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Rocky Moore

Why: to save daylight :) Instead of having daylight before the normal workday and shorter in the evening, it is moved so that it is later in the morning when most people will best make use of it the same for the longer evenining. This supposedly saves energy, but I wonder how much energy was wasted implementing this new move with all things considered. If everything was examined, we would probably come out ahead without the DST and just have everyone eat one less hamburger per month ;)

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Tomas Petricek

Don't talk to me about Daylight Saving Time - I had to change my air ticket because the company were I purchased it didn't know about this change.. I hope we'll not crash into something on Sunday :~ .

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El Corazon

Quartz... wrote:

i haven't met a single person who can explain properly why do we do day light saving ?

from what age do you ask? When it was first proposed, we used fuel oil for lighting. By moving the workday earlier and going to sleep at dusk, you save fuel at homes. The same "can" be said today, though in many cities lights burn day and night, irrelevant to any hands on a clock. But in other areas, it puts you on the road near dawn and home well before dawn. People shop more during daylight hours, regardless of posted hours on the store. Though shopping does occur at all hours, it is a bell curve with daylight, after work hours, being the highest... so offering more time after work before the sun sets is good for most sales industries, lousy for home fuel in the hotter zones because you get home and have to cool the house at 100 to 130F outside. Though in the same zones those companies who shut down at work-end such as my offices, benefit by turning off cooling and people go home to pay for it themselves. :) hey, just being real about it. Some people benefit, some don't. Just as with anything, it all depends on if the people who do benefit get to take advantage of those who don't. :)

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Lost User

Quartz... wrote:

can anyone throw some light

Daylight savings makes it so there is more daylight during the day. Instead of it getting dark at 7 it will get dark at 8. Daylight savings was implemented way back in the day and energy conservation was not the original reason daylight savings was implemented. I think this was originally implemented to give farmers more daylight so they could work longer or something like that.

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El Corazon

Miszou wrote:

doesn't start taking photographs of total darkness or broad daylight

don't worry, it will start taking pictures of the girls next door skinny dipping in the last light of day.

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El Corazon

Captain See Sharp wrote:

I think this was originally implemented to give farmers more daylight so they could work longer or something like that.

this is a myth, continually expounded by politicians and others who have never been to a farm. Every farmer in my family works from dawn to dusk regardless of the hands on a clock. The cows wake, they get fed, they get milked, the milk truck comes, the cows get fed again, the fields get tended, all while there is sun in the sky. No one looks at the watch. It is hard to light a field with floodlights, so they don't get up earlier because the clock gets moved.

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Miszou

Quartz... wrote:

can anyone throw some light

I believe this is an advanced Jedi skill, and is demonstrated by Lord Vader when he throws his lightsaber at Luke in a vain effort to convince him to join the Emperor.

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Raj Lal

that was a bit convincing :)

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Eytukan

There has been a lot of mails from the Sys Admins about the DST , but never cared to read one. :-O But I could see this in every mail "Please restart you machine".

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mcpoo726

I know for certain that my clocks will continue to be correct before, during, and after the DST shift because I live in Arizona!

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