Hmmm?
I've never particularly liked DST.
I'd like it even less if it turns out this study is generally true:
http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/83073
Arthur
Down with daylight savings time! 
On top of the fact that I will feel like doodoo for a few weeks until my body adjusts, we will be using more electricity......
Isn't the history of daylight savings time to help the farmers? Funny, but all the farmers I know, still have to get up and milk the cows at the same time whether it is daylight savings or not. And it doesn't help them plow their fields or tend their crops either. Does it truly benefit ANYONE? (besides the power company)
Lets get real, government, ban it!
On top of the fact that I will feel like doodoo for a few weeks until my body adjusts, we will be using more electricity......
Isn't the history of daylight savings time to help the farmers? Funny, but all the farmers I know, still have to get up and milk the cows at the same time whether it is daylight savings or not. And it doesn't help them plow their fields or tend their crops either. Does it truly benefit ANYONE? (besides the power company)Lets get real, government, ban it!
It's like trying to make a blanket longer by cutting off one end and sewing it onto the other end.
On top of that, DST killed the drive-in movie.
There was a study done in Australia that determined the opposite - a small overall savings on utility bills. It was then done on the west Coast of U.S., also with a small reduction of utility bills. But so small a reduction that it would fall into the +/- threshold for margin of error, and obviously this more recent data indicates that.
Personally, well I'm in the minority here; I love DST, especially when I get home late and want to see a little more day. Since I don't often have to get up real early, it works for me. Though when I was in school I hated it. The switching doesn't affect my internal clock though, because I have anything but the same work day over and over. It's always different.
I thought it was romantic to go at twilight. But around here it was the better theatre sound systems and real estate taxes that killed it, not to mention crazed developers, who continue to proliferate like rabbits. The HiWay Drive-In, 309 Cinema, and most others are now carbon-copy gingerbread McMansions now
Personally, well I'm in the minority here; I love DST, especially when I get home late and want to see a little more day. Since I don't often have to get up real early, it works for me. Though when I was in school I hated it. The switching doesn't affect my internal clock though, because I have anything but the same work day over and over. It's always different.
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On top of that, DST killed the drive-in movie. mad.gif
I thought it was romantic to go at twilight. But around here it was the better theatre sound systems and real estate taxes that killed it, not to mention crazed developers, who continue to proliferate like rabbits. The HiWay Drive-In, 309 Cinema, and most others are now carbon-copy gingerbread McMansions now
Hi All,
I agree with Arthur and "THEY" DST is a nuisance. For those who work sunup to sundown, clocks are irrelevant. Arizona and Indiana(?) don't even comply with DST.
BTW, is your computer ready for the early change?
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/2007.../NEWS/702200304
I agree with Arthur and "THEY" DST is a nuisance. For those who work sunup to sundown, clocks are irrelevant. Arizona and Indiana(?) don't even comply with DST.
BTW, is your computer ready for the early change?
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/2007.../NEWS/702200304
QUOTE (xtrmn8r+Mar 8 2008, 04:30 PM)
BTW, is your computer ready for the early change?
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/2007.../NEWS/702200304
Not my work computer!
I disagree.
I quite appreciate not having sunrise at 4am.
I imagine that DST would be more useful for those of us that live at higher latitudes then for those of us that don't.
I quite appreciate not having sunrise at 4am.
I imagine that DST would be more useful for those of us that live at higher latitudes then for those of us that don't.
I never minded the spring time change. I always got up early anyway but in the evenings you get off early enough to go fishing. I spent so much time jumping time zones that a one hour adjustment is nothing. Jet lag was only a problem when I was flying east and for more than 3 or 4 time zones anyway. Besides look at all of those 3rd shift workers that got off an hour early last night.
QUOTE (xtrmn8r+Mar 8 2008, 07:30 PM)
BTW, is your computer ready for the early change?
I thought mine was.
DST broke my forum's shoutbox, I think. I haven't searched yet. Chat still works, though!
I thought mine was.
DST broke my forum's shoutbox, I think. I haven't searched yet. Chat still works, though!
For Windows Server 2003, you have KB931836 at Microsoft.
Said to work on 2000 Pro and 2000 Server as well, though unofficial.
Hence it should work on XP as well, if XP doesn't have its own.
I guess Vista has its own.
Just for fun...
I have Windows Me and 2000 on a computer. Started one and then the other after a time change.
Guess what: The computer's clock shifted 2 hours instead of 1.
Congratulations.
Said to work on 2000 Pro and 2000 Server as well, though unofficial.
Hence it should work on XP as well, if XP doesn't have its own.
I guess Vista has its own.
Just for fun...
I have Windows Me and 2000 on a computer. Started one and then the other after a time change.
Guess what: The computer's clock shifted 2 hours instead of 1.
Congratulations.
I have Vista. It had a hard time last fall but this spring it seems OK now.
No problem mon,,,
No problem mon,,,
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