Mar 12, 2007 12:44pm
Sound Off: Daylight Savings Bug
EmailThe one surprise I had was my BlackBerry. I thought of it as a cell phone for email, and assumed it would set its clock by wireless signal.
Silly me. Not having made the software patch that was sent to me last week, I had to reset the clock manually.
Microsoft Outlook’s calendar is also a bit funky, but we’d been warned of that. It’s invited me to a 2:30 PM meeting–two hours early.
Does this serve the greater good? You probably saw our story on this over the past couple of days; if not, it’s HERE. SLATE also offers a take on this.
So how are you doing? Please let us know.
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The only glitch I had with the automatic stuff was that my big-dish satellite receiver clock advanced by 2 hours! It later corrected itself. The Microsoft patch I downloaded for my XP computer worked just fine, except it didn’t ask me to verify the time as it used to. Then, there are all the devices that have to be reset manually.
Posted by: Andy | March 12, 2007, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm
Our Media Center which is running on an XP computer is somewhat off on it’s time. For some reason it thinks it recorded four hours of a show this morning that is not set to record till tomorrow evening and only is supposed to be an hour long! My husband’s computer was two hours off this morning, and his company is having a lot of problems with Microsoft Outlook. They were showing up early for meetings all morning.
Posted by: Kerri | March 12, 2007, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm
I think the whole time change thing is more of a bother then a benefit. We should scrap the whole idea and keep the clocks constant.
Posted by: Mark | March 12, 2007, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm
The DST time change was initiated by a famous American known as Benjamin Franklin… Back then, they used DST to save money on CANDLES and to wake up earlier to make more use of their daylight for farming… I think he created the phrase ‘Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise…’ I enjoy more daylight in the summer so I can get more exercise outdoors after work… Constant time could be measured by a thing known as the Internet Time… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_time
Posted by: SG | March 12, 2007, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
I agree with Mark. Why don’t we just keep the time the same all year around? It’s never made sense to me that we’re always fooling with it. There are still 24 hours in a day, and if you don’t turn on the lights until later in the evening, you will have to turn them on in the morning to get ready for work. So what are the savings?
Posted by: Paula Freeman | March 12, 2007, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
No glitches, just the pain of having to re-set all the “old-fashioned” clocks which number about a half-dozen in my apartment, like the one on the mantelpiece, on Saturday night.
Posted by: chuck | March 12, 2007, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
No surprises in the computer world, but I am surprised by how many people are so negative about daylight savings. I, for one, am glad for the extra hour of daylight after business hours to get out and do stuff outside. When you’re in the office all day, it’s nice to get home and be able to work in the yard a bit before it gets dark.
Posted by: Andi | March 12, 2007, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm
So, what is going to happen the 1st of April, when all the “preprogrammed” electronic stuff are told to “spring forward”? Do we have to set them back one
hour?
Posted by: Astor Rask | March 12, 2007, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
It’s so silly. There is more solar gain in the month of March than in any other, so what on earth is the point?!
Posted by: Beth | March 12, 2007, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm
Only minor problems here. All my PCs updated automatically as well as my ReplayTV (the original DVR BEFORE TiVo!) — and that’s quite surprising since ReplayTV owners seems to be the “forgotten minority.”
My only sanfu was my work PC where I had one meeting go off an hour late… But oddly enough no one noticed, so the meeting was cancelled — so, who can really complain about one LESS meeting? Oh, and my portable GPS unit failed to switch-over. I had to manually set it to DST. (Which makes me wonder… Are GPS systems — which use time-based signals for triangulation — affected by DST?)
I personally find DST only a MINOR annoyance. Like others, I ENJOY leaving work when there’s still daylight left to do stuff outdoors. And for those that hate changing their clocks, well.. just leave them an hour behind — set your alarms for an hour earlier and do the mental calculations in your head for meetings, etc.
OR, if your adament about keeping on “the same time,” use UTC (“universal coordinated time,” formerly Greenwich Mean Time or “Zulu time”) as used by the military, global shortwave radio, and other “global operators.”
Posted by: Redtech5 | March 13, 2007, 10:11 am 10:11 am