Daylight Saving Time
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barbeer
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- Pinellas County, FL
I thought it was "spring forward, fall back"?
wptski
Senior Member
- Location
- Warren, MI
My RCA VCR/DVD player fell back last weekend but any changes in time, date or DST ON/OFF revert back everytime the unit is powered OFF/ON again!! Go figure....
barbeer
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- Pinellas County, FL
Shoulda bought a Sony!:smile:
wptski
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- Warren, MI
Very odd not being able to set variable parameters! Wonder if it allows me to change the minutes? Now that would really be odd if it allowed that.
I don't know the brand but my brother-in-law said that his PDA did/does the exact same thing too.
I don't know the brand but my brother-in-law said that his PDA did/does the exact same thing too.
zbang
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- Roughly 5346 miles from Earls Court
It's all due to our Fine President pushing the change to when DST starts/ends. It's been almost as much work patching/adjusting all the computers as the y2k nonsense was. I wonder how many working hours have been spent resetting clocks on systems that don't (or can't) know about the change in the time change.
Not that I have a strong opinion about it...
Not that I have a strong opinion about it...
I just wish they'd leave my clocks the h--l alone. They claim I'm saving time, but I spend hours every fall and spring locating all my clocks and changing them. And the 'daylight' angle??? Who are they trying to kid? Any idiot knows the sun is above the horizon only so long every day, and no amount of tinkering with our clocks is going to change that fact. I say split the difference between the two, and leave it at that.
Rampage_Rick
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- British Columbia, Canada
My DVD burner jumped the gun as well, and I ended up taping Dancing With The Stars (not amusedwptski said:
) Yours is probably like mine, in that it sets it's clock from PBS."Computers don't make errors. What they do, they do on purpose" ~Dale Gribble
The 'saving' part is a myth. If they can get away with skewing the dates, they should also be able to change the name to Daylight Shifting Time.
I really couldn't give two shakes because my schedule is screwed up as it is. I don't relish having to check 100 clocks though.
Screw it all, I'm switching to UTC. See you at 2200 Zulu...
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brian john
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- Kilmarnock, Va
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- Retired after 52 years in the trade.
I say we drop the daylight savings time. IT SERVES NO PURPOSE
LawnGuyLandSparky
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bcorbin said:
If he's not part of the solution, he's part of the problem, no? :grin:
Mike Ockhertz
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It probably helped save coal durring the war, but I believe there is little evidence to support DST helps cut electricity useage overall. Consumption is reduced in the PM obviously; however the useage in the morning most nearly cancels it out. Here's the kicker, the sharper peak demand in the AM increases energy costs.
I can go running after work, in the light, for a few more weeks though.
I can go running after work, in the light, for a few more weeks though.
brian john said:
DITTO!!!!!!
We have this guy to thank for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Willett
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winnie
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- Springfield, MA, USA
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- Electric motor research
If you are not part of the solution, then you might just be the boiling chip.
Seriously, there are loads of political forces pushing on both sides of the daylight savings time issue. Hell even the candy industry cares; they wanted the change to 'standard time' _after_ Halloween so that more young kids would have time to 'trick or treat' after school and before dark. We may all have feeling for or against our current President, but discussion of such simply causes rancor and distracts from discussion of electrical matters. I've watched good BBSs fall apart on such side discussions.
'Clock time' is related but does not match 'sun time'. We don't set our clocks each day to read noon when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, we set our clocks to a calculated average noon, and we don't set our clocks to average noon at our particular location, but to a standardized location in our 'time zone'. Once you give up local noon to accept 'time zones' and 'mean time' and the like, the setting of your clock becomes a political decision, trying to get lots of people to agree to the same standard.
-Jon
Seriously, there are loads of political forces pushing on both sides of the daylight savings time issue. Hell even the candy industry cares; they wanted the change to 'standard time' _after_ Halloween so that more young kids would have time to 'trick or treat' after school and before dark. We may all have feeling for or against our current President, but discussion of such simply causes rancor and distracts from discussion of electrical matters. I've watched good BBSs fall apart on such side discussions.
'Clock time' is related but does not match 'sun time'. We don't set our clocks each day to read noon when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, we set our clocks to a calculated average noon, and we don't set our clocks to average noon at our particular location, but to a standardized location in our 'time zone'. Once you give up local noon to accept 'time zones' and 'mean time' and the like, the setting of your clock becomes a political decision, trying to get lots of people to agree to the same standard.
-Jon
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- Windsor, CO NEC: 2017
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- Hospital Master Electrician
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's stupid. I'd say just leave it summer time year round, what would it matter?
That said, we obviously need to leave politics out of the discussion as much as possible, as others have pointed out.
That said, we obviously need to leave politics out of the discussion as much as possible, as others have pointed out.
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