Daylight Saving Time
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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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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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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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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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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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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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My only real concern is that this[^] doesn't start taking photographs of total darkness or broad daylight (whichever way it goes - I can't figure it out!)
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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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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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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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i haven't met a single person who can explain properly why do we do day light saving ? can anyone throw some light
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
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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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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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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?
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
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".
Press: 1500 to 2,200 messages in just 6 days? How's that possible sir? **Dr.Brad :**Well,I just replied to everything Graus did and then argued with Negus for a bit.
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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?
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
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i haven't met a single person who can explain properly why do we do day light saving ? can anyone throw some light
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
Vista? Soapbox Videogadget here
Rhys A cult is a religion with no political power. Tom Wolfe Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Louis D. Brandeis
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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.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Joe Woodbury wrote:
I dual booted between W2K and Win98
Ah, the memories. I did that. The embarassing thing is, I'm posting this message from the same hardware :-O, just running XP. Time to buying a new computer: 20 days and counting. We're getting paid our annual bonus :cool:, and I just found out I can buy a PC from our corporate supplier and get the company discount :cool::cool:.
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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?
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
I'm not too worried about my computers, but I fully expect my sattelite receive which has more bugs than a bait shop to completely screw up all my carefully chosen programs and times to record and I'll have to redo it all over again. I seriously don't know what morons write the UI software for these things but it's something I'm sure 95% of the punters around here could do better with one hand tied behind their back. I also expect that my thermostat is now messed up and the AC outlet timer thingie that pre-heats my espresso machine before I get up in the morning. Aside from that the whole idea of changing DST on a whim is blindly stupid. I used to live in an area where the clocks never changed, no daylight saving time at all and it was just fine. It's time for this anachronism to bite the dust.
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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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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?
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
I don't really care - DST is for suckers. Arizona doesn't bother to change time. To be honest, though, I suspect that the reason we don't change is that it would take to long to explain to the natives how to do it. By the time most of the locals figured out how to make the clock change by an hour, DST would be over.
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Dark at 8? How far south are you? In the summer even here just north of the US Canadian border it never gets dark in the summer before 10pm.
