OT time change

One year the people in Ft Collins, CO set the computers to reference the atomic clock, time change one week before the actual date [like today] I was working for a clock manufacturer in El Segundo, we had so many anxious people calling!

G> Boy does my dad the astrologer grumble when they start messing with

And to complicate things further, Europe changed their clocks last night. morag

Europe and us, Morag!! I still like to be considered separately >g< . In message , Morag in Scotland writes

Most of the rest of the world did change their clocks today, Ginger. Our DST is being delayed as a means, theoretically, of saving energy. I suspect it doesn't really help much, if at all. :S

Wow! Good thing I read this post -- I hadn't noticed. Early this morning I decided to turn off the auto synchronization for Daylight Saving Time. Now I guess I need to turn off all synchronization with Internet servers. My computer already says there was an error trying to synchronize. Gee, DUH!

My computer changed the time also. Barbara in FL

Ginger, all my computers are on the same system, but only mine chose to "fall back" last night. Weird.

And I'm glad to know your skies are looking sweeter.

Hugs, Sunny

I am with you there Pat. Shirley

In message , Patti writes

He-he! . In message , Shirley Shone writes

We changed over this weekend, forward to daylight saving. I'm usually a little off put by the change forward, takes me about a week to get used to getting dinner ready when the sun is still in the sky.

Since it's conception was enacted, March 19, 1918, (between 1918 and 1966 there has always been political waffling going on about whether DST be mandatory or voluntary) but up until 2006, the Daylight Saving Time period has closed on the last Sunday of October, about a week before Election Day, which is held the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

Hang in there boys and girls, this gets really interesting....... *yawn*

Up until now the use of energy and industrial resources was the explained rational for flip flopping the time around. HOWEVER, this last change in the extension of Daylight Saving Time into November was mandated by our (if you are in the USA) fearless leader, Gee-Dubya, as a way to encourage greater voter participation, his theory being that more people would go to the polls if it was still light when they returned home from work. The U.S. law, taking effect in 2007, pushes the end of Daylight Saving Time to the first Sunday in November. This little law was slipped through as part of a negotiation concession in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, to take effect in

2007 but it has nothing to do with "energy". Weird and unpopular laws are slipped through this way by BOTH parties and have been for years, nothing new. It just causes a lot of confused people to often wonder...."when/why/how the hell did that law get passed?" In some years (2010, 2021, 2027, and 2032), this will fall *after* Election Day. Huhh, go figure. So in a 300+ page transcript (Yeah, I actually do read this stuff.) there are five sentences written, now almost 3 years ago, telling us what is going to happen NEXT Sunday, 4th of November 2007.

So, up until this year "fall back" had always been the last Sunday in October for as long or longer than any of us can remember...many, not only in this country but world wide, did not receive this memo...confusion and chaos reigns...SNAFU. And you wonder WHY you are confused?

I'm just waiting to see what happens when "opening Monday" hits the first commodities and stock exchanges. There's going to be world wide traders standing at "the station" either looking down the tracks and at their clocks wondering where the hell that train is and the rest are going to be watching the ass end of caboose disappear when they thought they'd be first onboard!

Me personally; I'm just all a quiver with anticipation and waiting with bated breathe for my kitchen clock to finally be "right" again. LOL

Val

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If you have a computer with Windows Vista and are expecting it to do the time change automatically, check you have all updates and service packs installed, this component wasn't working correctly on the original release - how do I know? it was my hubbie that stayed up to fix the bug, thankfully the existance of the problem was nothing to do with him.

Cheers Anne

Do you have Vista? if so install the updates, there may well be a problem with other systems and the clock they are using, but when the changes that Val mentions came in Microsoft did manage to notice that things weren't going to work correctly, but only after it had been released.

Cheers Anne

Ours changed last night. Its always nice to have the extra hour in bed, but I find that its the following night when I'm dead tired.

Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

G> Next Sunday 11/4 at 2AM the time rolls back one hour for those of us