Daylight Savings Time - it's NEW!

[Atragon9 0]

For those of you in most of the US (and in countries that follow Daylight Savings Time), this is a reminder that it will be arriving three weeks earlier than usual and sticking around for an extra week at the end. The US Congress, in its infinite wisdom, passed a law in 2005 stating that DST will be expanded starting in 2007. So, instead of moving your clocks forward an hour (Spring Ahead) on the first Sunday in April, it will happen on the second Sunday in March.

 

Hopefully your computer will have received whatever update or patch it needs from Microsoft/Apple/Red Hat, but in case you don't grab updates, please remember that at 2:00 AM on Sunday, March 11, 2007 it will become 3:00 AM. This means that all sims will be starting "an hour late" or later than a week earlier, so you might find yourself showing up an hour early for scheduled events.

 

If you don't have your PC (or home clocks or personal body clocks) adjusted, you will be off an hour early until April 1, when all of the non-updated machinery will switch over, thinking it will be the time change. If you really want to get yourself confused, remember that you can always manually update your devices on 3/11 to conform for these three weeks. However, your equipment may they decide that 4/1 is the time to move forward and hour and then all of your scheduling devices will be an hour Ahead!

 

What is the moral of the story? Software patches are good, being aware of what time it is SUPPOSED to be is good, the US Congress is... well, you decide.

[Images 0]

Heh, you confused me even more by writing 3/11. Was wondering at first before I read the post why you were warning us about a 3rd of november clock change! :blink:

[Sendai Riko 0]

Heh, you confused me even more by writing 3/11. Was wondering at first before I read the post why you were warning us about a 3rd of november clock change! :blink:

 

It would be nice if we could adopt the ISO date standard, it would save that confusion. :: sigh ::

Edited March 5, 2007 by Sendai Riko

[Kairi 0]

The whole DST still confuses me anyways. I'm from Indiana, and we finally decided to do the whole DST thing.

[Kevin Anderson 0]

Ahh, this is going to confuse me, because DST starts on the 25th of March here, I can already see myself being early first and then when it all changes again I'm most likely going to be late. Time zones can be confusing enough as it is now they have to make it even more confusing...

[will_marx 0]

Ahh, this is going to confuse me, because DST starts on the 25th of March here, I can already see myself being early first and then when it all changes again I'm most likely going to be late. Time zones can be confusing enough as it is now they have to make it even more confusing...

 

Confusion's a good thing though. Keeps one on their toes.

[Dumbass 0]

the US Congress is... well, you decide.

 

I personally think the Bill of Rights should be scaked back to the first 5 words of the 1st Amendment:

 

"Congress shall create no law"

[WxMurray 0]

At the rate we're going there will be no such thing as "standard time". We will forever be on Daylight Saving Time. As it is we've got what, three months of standard time? Whoo.

[Guest STSF_Amnor]

At the rate we're going there will be no such thing as "standard time". We will forever be on Daylight Saving Time. As it is we've got what, three months of standard time? Whoo.

 

How can they call it 'standard' when it's the minority?!