Daylight Savings Time

[Keith B]

Just a note for those that may be displaying a wrong time on your posts after the change to Daylight Savings Time. Go to the User Control Panel, Board Preferences, and in there you will see a place to change check if DST is in effect.

[seamusTX]

Here's a site that displays the correct (AFAICT) local time in various cities: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Texas is pretty easy, except for El Paso; but we do have members elsewhere.

Your mobile phone will probably display the correct time if you are in your home area.

- Jim

[KD5NRH]

Your mobile phone will probably display the correct time if you are in your home area.

Failing that, as long as your GPS is set to show local time, it should update right away as well.

[Crossfire]

I HATE daylight saving time!!!!!

[quidni]

I HATE daylight saving time!!!!!

I don't dislike DST so much... what I don't like is the switch back in the fall. I kinda like having the majority of the sunshine in the afternoon/evening, when I have time after work to get things done.

But whether it's DST or Standard Time, I wish the powers-that-be would make up their minds on one or the other, and leave the clock alone. Doesn't seem to be hurting Arizona any.

[LaserTex]

I HATE daylight saving time!!!!!

I don't dislike DST so much... what I don't like is the switch back in the fall. I kinda like having the majority of the sunshine in the afternoon/evening, when I have time after work to get things done.

But whether it's DST or Standard Time, I wish the powers-that-be would make up their minds on one or the other, and leave the clock alone. Doesn't seem to be hurting Arizona any.

[diastiss]

i want my hour of life given back to me! haha

[seamusTX]

I personally don't care one way or the other. I wake up at dawn, whenever that is, and I don't have to commute.

DST is a huge pain in the patootie for people who run worldwide computer networks, though. Many countries switch on different days. Some, like India, have time zones that are 15 or 30 minutes off the GMT hour. When we're switching onto DST, countries in the southern hemisphere are switching off. And all of this changes every year.

- Jim

[Liberty]

I personally don't care one way or the other. I wake up at dawn, whenever that is, and I don't have to commute.

DST is a huge pain in the patootie for people who run worldwide computer networks, though. Many countries switch on different days. Some, like India, have time zones that are 15 or 30 minutes off the GMT hour. When we're switching onto DST, countries in the southern hemisphere are switching off. And all of this changes every year.

- Jim

It really stinks for the folks that work on the computers that run the computers at the oil and chemical industries. Tons and tons of Data are recorded every second or 2 while setting the clocks forward is confusing repeating an hour in fall can really screw things up. While I know of no reported real problems in the Process control industry with the Y2K issues every year I hear or get involved with historian problems that actually cause shutdowns. The time shifting cost these plants a lot of money. Expanding Daylight savings is supposed to be about saving energy. One result I've noticed ab out daylight savings is that I'm more likely to leave the house i the morning with the lights on. I think the only reason we have daylight savings is that government gets a perverse pleasure in telling us what to do. Arizona does just fine without switching the time around.

[seamusTX]

I'm in the software business. On Dec. 31, 1999, the company had everyone who could perform telephone support in a "war room" with water, food, and emergency generators. Nothing happened. The scuttlebutt was that they didn't get a single call except for some wrong numbers.

Every year, when DST starts switching on or off, they get hammered with customer problems.

DST was supposed to save energy, but no one can demonstrate that it does now. I'm sure you remember when the whole country was on DST for most of the year in the 1970s. IMO, they might as well do that permanently -- just advance all the time zones by one hour. I don't care if sunset is at 6:30 or 7:30 p.m. in the winter.

- Jim

[Liberty]

I'm in the software business. On Dec. 31, 1999, the company had everyone who could perform telephone support in a "war room" with water, food, and emergency generators. Nothing happened. The scuttlebutt was that they didn't get a single call except for some wrong numbers.

Every year, when DST starts switching on or off, they get hammered with customer problems.

DST was supposed to save energy, but no one can demonstrate that it does now. I'm sure you remember when the whole country was on DST for most of the year in the 1970s. IMO, they might as well do that permanently -- just advance all the time zones by one hour. I don't care if sunset is at 6:30 or 7:30 p.m. in the winter.

- Jim

The company I was working for at the time made a lot of money selling software upgrades and scaring the daylights out of people. They have never addressed automatically addessing th daylight savings issues though.

[Keith B]

I'm in the software business. On Dec. 31, 1999, the company had everyone who could perform telephone support in a "war room" with water, food, and emergency generators. Nothing happened. The scuttlebutt was that they didn't get a single call except for some wrong numbers.

Every year, when DST starts switching on or off, they get hammered with customer problems.

DST was supposed to save energy, but no one can demonstrate that it does now. I'm sure you remember when the whole country was on DST for most of the year in the 1970s. IMO, they might as well do that permanently -- just advance all the time zones by one hour. I don't care if sunset is at 6:30 or 7:30 p.m. in the winter.

- Jim

I work in the telecommunications industry. We were in the same type of scenario during that time and had a conference bridge up in the war room. However, I was so confident my team had checked out our network throughly and that it would be a major non-event that we were watching movies on the big screen. I had BBQ catered in and we made a party out of it.

DST changes used to be a pain in our systems with billing on calls, but the software has been used for so long it is no problem any longer.

[Captain Matt]

If one hour is good would two hours be better?

[seamusTX]

I don't think so. It wouldn't matter that much in Texas, but up around the Canadian border they would have sunrise after 8 a.m. and sunset after 10 p.m.

- Jim

[stevie_d_64]

I'm in the software business. On Dec. 31, 1999, the company had everyone who could perform telephone support in a "war room" with water, food, and emergency generators. Nothing happened. The scuttlebutt was that they didn't get a single call except for some wrong numbers.

Every year, when DST starts switching on or off, they get hammered with customer problems.

DST was supposed to save energy, but no one can demonstrate that it does now. I'm sure you remember when the whole country was on DST for most of the year in the 1970s. IMO, they might as well do that permanently -- just advance all the time zones by one hour. I don't care if sunset is at 6:30 or 7:30 p.m. in the winter.

- Jim

When I won the "rock, paper, scissors" battle to see who would pull the Y2K duty at the company I worked at at the time, I called the loser at the office and caught his voicemail...I called him at home and woke him up...

We concluded that if the voicemail worked we were ok, and never mentioned what really happened to anyone else...

Not like we could do anything about it anyway...