Daylight Savings Time Sucks

“All that and the metric system, too?”

““eastern time zone sucks”
Ewker
4:46:09 PM
1/19/06
ignore this user

Central time zone is behind the times.
:p”

“so Im confused, what time is it right now?”

“i agree crash, one of the main things about this whole deal was that the whole state was gonna be on the same time, now a few renegade counties are gonna get their own time zone...didn't really fix much”

“It's Miller Time!”

“

Wake up to the 'daylight-saving' bug

By Joris Evers
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 16, 2007, 4:00 AM PST


This year, daylight saving is starting early--a change that could cause Y2K-like headaches for IT professionals, and even for consumers.

Congress decided in 2005 to extend the period of daylight-saving time by three weeks in spring and one in the fall, reasoning that providing more daylight in the early evening would reduce energy use. However, the shift could cause trouble with software set to automatically advance its clock by an hour on the old date, the first Sunday in April, and not on the new date, the second Sunday in March.

"There has been a great deal of speculation of what the impact could be," said M3 Sweatt, chief of staff of Microsoft's customer service team. "For most people, the most apparent issue is that meetings and reminders may appear to be off by one hour."

But Microsoft may be downplaying the risk. Some say those companies that don't pay full attention to the issue are in for a rude awakening.”

“Seems you're on the wrong timeline anyway, if you're up so early and posting at TT?”

“I know... What am I doing awake at this ungodly hour?? (not really that ungodly, LOL)

Thinking about time will mess with your head, though. I read lots of Science Fiction when I was younger and time travel is always a popular subject... But The Verb Tenses Will Drive You Insane! LOL ---

Nevermind the paradoxes and the cause & effect craziness... It's the verbs that get you in the end.


Reading Microsquish webpages about software patches isn't much better!”

“...huh?!? What are you talking about? Can you say that again, in english...or are you just talking so confuse because the mess with your head belongs into bed?”

“I will have been saying the same thing next month --- LOL


Combine problems involving Time with Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and the Universe might well implode --”

“You're right --- It's too early for this discussion in this timezone, LOL”

“You better make sure you get back on the correct timeline, befor you cause a rupture in the continuum.”

“It's Monday morning -- ruptures in the continuum are pretty much standard operating procedure!”

“Understood. Write an SOP. Inform the managment about the rupture in the Monday morning continuum. Get the building evacuated.”

“I read about this elsewhere. This woman frequently writes letters to the editor and is known for her sarcasm, which many people misinterpret.

It's still funny as heck though.”

“She needs that sarcasm font!”

“So do a lot of people around here.”

“Unfortunately the writer fails to take into account that February only has 28 days. That's a whole 48 hours to help offset the warming.
last edited: 4/26/07 11:15:59 AM”

“Whadda ya mean? We're never sarcastic 'round here!! /sarc”

“There's a pretty good spoof writeup floating around the net talking about how the Alabama Governer was changing the value of pi because it had too many decimal points and was difficult to remember.”

“Ahh, here we go: http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.htm”

“I was thinking GoLite could produce a larger version of that silvery umbrella.... /snarc”

“Ah..... they stole it from Heinlein!”

“don't forget to set your clocks back an hour tonight”

“not me. korea's anti-dst”

“you don't count anyway”

“It's bonus night!”

“I hate standard time. There goes the end of taking walks on the bike trail after work.”

“oh yay. an extra hour at work. yippee. look at all my enthusiasm. jumping for joy. ”

“again, i just wanna say the move to dst in indiana was fcking stupid. they did it so that other people, especially business people, calling from other states wouldnt get confused worrying about what time of year it was to know what time it was in indiana. so what do they do in the end? put most of the counties on eastern time, but let a few counties stay on central time. now, people from other states have to worry about what county theyre calling, instead of the time of the year, DEFEATING THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF GOING TO DST. INCREDIBLE!”

“So much for an extra hour on Halloween Saturday Night.

I save my actual bltching for when I lose an hour.... Like back when that 8 am Calculus class magically turned into a 7 am Calculus class.

Talk about suckage..... !!”

“yay! an extra hour of insomnia!”

“Son of a mother jumpin' dirt cop sucker! I saw this thread and it scared the hell out of me because I thought, "I damn! I'm running an hour behind for work!". Then I realized I'm up at 4 effing AM which pisses me off even more.”

“So what time is it really? I've lost track.”

“0731 Pacific.”

“Nigal I don't know about you but this time change stuff has been happening all my life so I've almost got it down pat after 45 years! LOL!”

“4:43 PM CST



SHEESH!”

“I like dst. I'm up and at 'em so early and I like the sun coming in my windows sooner.”

“I hate standard time. There goes the end of taking walks on the bike trail after work.


Oh how true that is..........I`m a regular grumpy Gus now until the end of March.”

“I still prefer regular hours, thanks.”

“I'd rather have sunlight after work than before. But it doesn't really matter, I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do - daylight or dark.”

“Standard time sucks. Now it's dark when I leave for work and when I go home.”

“In the end, it may be the only way to get people to conserve energy --- by trickery.”