Author Topic: Spring Forward? (Read 458 times)

rpm · « **on:** April 06, 2003, 12:00:32 PM »

How many of you forgot to set your clocks?

squelch_19 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 06, 2003, 12:09:28 PM »

Flossy · « **Reply #2 on:** April 06, 2003, 12:12:24 PM »

Pah, you're all a week late! Did ours last weekend!

john9001 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 06, 2003, 12:15:40 PM »

my computer resets automaticaly, it even tells me it reset, ...good boy, goood boy.

ccvi · « **Reply #4 on:** April 06, 2003, 01:12:30 PM »

My computer's clock does not change, ever. It's running on UTC like every clock, at least every computer's clock should.

Sandman · « **Reply #5 on:** April 06, 2003, 02:09:36 PM »

Didn't realize the time changed until I turned on the CPU. I hate time changes. Makes me want to move to Arizona twice a year.

Flossy · « **Reply #6 on:** April 06, 2003, 02:23:26 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
I hate time changes.

Me too. It's one always having to keep in mind time differences for running events, but when one timezone changes before another, it causes no end of headaches!

Glad they only change twice a year - and hopefully the UK/Europe and US will change back at the same time later in the year.... then I won't need to worry about it again....

Gyro/T69 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 06, 2003, 02:31:18 PM »

"I hate time changes"

Could be worse. Got hit by a ice storm late thursday night. Just got the power back on today.

Maverick · « **Reply #8 on:** April 06, 2003, 09:59:40 PM »

We don't need no steenking daylight savings in Arizona. We got PLENTY sunlight here!;)

Was sunny, blue sky and about 78 degrees in Tucson Airport today.

beet1e · « **Reply #9 on:** April 07, 2003, 01:28:10 AM »

You can download software that will synchronise your computer clock to a server linked to an atomic clock. I am now using http://www.clock-sync.com

I had to dump Atomic 2.5 because it did not take account of the fact that the UK and US do not always make the time change on the same weekend. Clock-Sync allows you to set your time zone, and even allows you to offset your clock setting by the desired number of minutes - in my case, zero.

Trivia question: What's the longest month of the year?
Answer: October, because it has 31 days and is also the month when clocks are retarded by one hour, and is therefore one hour longer than the other months with 31 days.

mjolnir · « **Reply #10 on:** April 07, 2003, 02:25:45 AM »

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Originally posted by Flossy
Me too. It's one always having to keep in mind time differences for running events, but when one timezone changes before another, it causes no end of headaches! Glad they only change twice a year - and hopefully the UK/Europe and US will change back at the same time later in the year.... then I won't need to worry about it again....

Fear not Flossy, while Europe starts Daylight Savings on the last weekend of March and the US starts on the first weekend in April, both end on the last weekend in October, so you only have to deal with that unique problem once a year.

Flossy · « **Reply #11 on:** April 07, 2003, 02:31:44 AM »

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Originally posted by mjolnir
Fear not Flossy, while Europe starts Daylight Savings on the last weekend of March and the US starts on the first weekend in April, both end on the last weekend in October, so you only have to deal with that unique problem once a year.

Good! It'll be somebody else's problem next year!