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JKTrix
02-15-2007, 08:21 PM
Greetz all. In case you didn't know, the US's Daylight Savings Time changes this year. It used to start on the first Sunday of April, but now it will be starting the 2nd Sunday of March (March 11 this year). It will also now be ending the first Sunday of November (Nov 4 this year) instead of Last Sunday of October like it was before.

Your computers automatically adjust to DST, but it was based on the 'old rule'. People running Vista have nothing to worry about, but anyone XP and older will have to patch. I'm not sure about Mac or other OSes, but I'm sure they'll have something available.

Windows users, read up here on how to get yourself sorted out.

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst

oddler
02-15-2007, 08:24 PM
Sneaky little time-adjusters. >.>

Roto13
02-15-2007, 08:27 PM
I don't know what we're doing in Canada.

Old Manus
02-15-2007, 08:37 PM
GMT represent

Misfit
02-15-2007, 08:52 PM
lolest.

Yamaneko
02-15-2007, 09:01 PM
Damn farmers.

Flying Mullet
02-15-2007, 09:03 PM
This was a really lame attempt by Prez Bushy to "help people cut down on energy consumption, thus saving them money" by extending daylight savings time, rather than getting his oil buddies to quit raping the american public by lowering energy prices.

oddler
02-15-2007, 09:10 PM
The Act, described by proponents as an attempt to combat growing energy problems, provides tax incentives and loan guarantees for energy production of various types.

Changing the time of day doesn't change the speed at which Earth rotates. :eyebrow:

Flying Mullet
02-15-2007, 09:15 PM
Daylight Savings Time originated during WWI when resources were scarce. The idea is that there is a lot of wasted daylight earlier in the morning from late spring through early fall when people are sleeping (before 6 am). By "rolling back" the time by an hour, people capitalize on the extra daylight .

Bunny
02-15-2007, 09:16 PM
I refuse to submit to this change.

oddler
02-15-2007, 09:18 PM
Daylight Savings Time originated during WWI when resources were scarce. The idea is that there is a lot of wasted daylight earlier in the morning from late spring through early fall when people are sleeping (before 6 am). By "rolling back" the time by an hour, people capitalize on the extra daylight .

Then they should just wake up and hour earlier, JUST LIKE THEY'RE REALLY DOING, EH? :p
There's never actually extra daylight.

Owen Macwere
02-15-2007, 09:23 PM
This is the advantage of not living in America. :cool:

rubah
02-16-2007, 03:38 AM
I think this is an important and worthwhile announcement

Does this mean we'll actually start DST *before* england now? It used to always been the week after they sprang forward.

fire_of_avalon
02-16-2007, 03:41 AM
Damn farmers.

Farming in America nowadays doesn't really benefit from DST, most of them get up between 4 and 5 a.m. My daddy says it's golfers' fault. I think he's silly.

Yamaneko
02-16-2007, 03:44 AM
Why must you bring me down to earth, foa? Why?

fire_of_avalon
02-16-2007, 03:47 AM
It's easier for me to reach your face when you're down here.

rubah
02-16-2007, 03:54 AM
The American Farmer is almost extinct. All there is now is huge megacrop corporations :(

Freya
02-16-2007, 04:03 AM
The American Farmer is almost extinct. All there is now is huge megacrop corporations :(

Well ranchers kinda benefit from it. I mean my neighbors do. I don't so much only having 40 horses isn't as much as having like 2k of cows. Stinkin' cows making me late for school...... WY FTW!

Eh I don't like DST anyway.

Mitch
02-16-2007, 04:22 AM
Changing the time of day doesn't change the speed at which Earth rotates. :eyebrow:

Not yet!

*completes diabolical machine*

Madonna
02-16-2007, 05:56 AM
Oh no, my carpet is going to fade faster now.

Shlup
02-16-2007, 06:08 AM
Dammit, Dubya!

41-Inches-Wide
02-16-2007, 03:13 PM
Wow, I still don't know what you guys do in Daylight Savings Time.

Bunny
02-16-2007, 04:55 PM
Wow, I still don't know what you guys do in Daylight Savings Time.

Whine and complain.

Tasura
02-16-2007, 05:19 PM
If it doesn't affect Canada I'll just point and laugh at the states, if for some reason it does, ie. the PM thinking it's a good idea and doing the same, I will shake my fist at the states.

escobert
02-16-2007, 07:59 PM
The American Farmer is almost extinct. All there is now is huge megacrop corporations :(

Not here, my family has been dairy farming in the same town for about 150 years or more. I think all in all we have 25+ farms in the area.

41-Inches-Wide
02-17-2007, 01:51 AM
Wow, I still don't know what you guys do in Daylight Savings Time.

Whine and complain.

awesome. :cool:

Zeromus_X
02-17-2007, 01:55 AM
I live in Arizona, so it won't effect me anyway. :) :cat:

rubah
02-17-2007, 03:57 AM
Affect, zexy. It won't affect you. If it doesn't effect you it's because effecting is not a verb that it is able to do, being as effect is not a verb!

Roto13
02-17-2007, 04:03 AM
I live in Arizona

*writes down*

Zeromus_X
02-17-2007, 04:20 AM
I noticed you used capitalization in your post, Allie. You thought ahead.

And I thought I told this to you before, Roto. O_o Or maybe Lunar.

Well anyway, Daylight Savings Time sure is grand.

Xaven
02-17-2007, 06:44 AM
It's Y2K all over again. Now my VCR is going to explode.

Madame Adequate
02-17-2007, 07:50 AM
The sensible thing to do would be to abolish it. ;_; Everywhere.

Resha
02-17-2007, 11:28 AM
Someone help me :( what's going on

Meat Puppet
02-17-2007, 11:31 AM
I just realized that I don’t have DST again. That’s a slight bonus, I guess.

Laugh out loud at resha, though.

crono_logical
02-17-2007, 11:43 AM
People should just use UTC all the time :D

Elite Lord Sigma
02-19-2007, 05:55 AM
Yay for the most pointless decision Dubya's ever made! I mean, can't you just get your oil company friends to stop ass-raping us with high oil prices instead, as Flying Mullet said earlier?

oddler
02-21-2007, 12:45 AM
Well anyway, Daylight Savings Time sure is grand.

*readies flame launcher

rubah
02-21-2007, 02:21 AM
Apple has released a software update for Mac now. 9.5mb

TyphoonThaReapa
02-21-2007, 08:09 PM
*sign* Dammit. Here we go again. *prepare kamikaze*

DarkLadyNyara
02-23-2007, 06:38 AM
*smacks forehead*

My fellow Americans, your government at work. :rolleyes2

Araciel
02-25-2007, 06:51 AM
Affect, zexy. It won't affect you. If it doesn't effect you it's because effecting is not a verb that it is able to do, being as effect is not a verb!

schooled

here in canada, we're doing the same thing last i heard.

i don't know why.

i don't really care, so long as i know when everyone's clocks change

Takara
02-25-2007, 05:45 PM
Yeah, as far as I know, we're doing it in Canada also, because our PM is spineless and is Dubya's bitch.

Don't look at me, I voted for another guy.

abrojtm
02-25-2007, 05:53 PM
I'm excited about this. The sunlight always wakes me at the asscrack of dawn, so this will give me an extra hour to get my beauty sleep.

snacks
03-05-2007, 05:46 PM
I'm just getting use to EST again > >
and i found out it's next week? holy crap.

/me sleeps for 2 days straight to catch up.

Baloki
03-05-2007, 08:22 PM
The sensible thing to do would be to abolish it. ;_; Everywhere.

I say we abolish time itself, damn'd timelords!

Yamaneko
03-05-2007, 08:42 PM
The first time I didn't put the two dimensions back together and got the bad ending. :(

Jowy
03-05-2007, 09:12 PM
I think we all did. It's a pain to get the damn Chrono Cross to work right.

Roto13
03-11-2007, 05:09 AM
It is now daylight savings time here. I hate it.

Jojee
03-11-2007, 10:28 AM
Hey, that's today. o_O; I didn't notice a difference? *head explodes* *tries to find out really what time it is*

CimminyCricket
03-11-2007, 11:31 AM
Oh, geez...I forgot to set my clock forward...backward...I forgot to change my clock...

Loony BoB
03-13-2007, 11:18 AM
*unstickies*

If people haven't caught on by now then that's their own damned fault.