US Daylight Saving Time Change on 11th March

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

Sneaky little time-adjusters. >.>

I don't know what we're doing in Canada.

GMT represent

lolest.

Damn farmers.

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.

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia

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.

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

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 .

I refuse to submit to this change.

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Originally Posted by Flying Mullet

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 .

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

This is the advantage of not living in America. :cool:

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.

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Originally Posted by Yamaneko

Damn farmers.

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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.

Why must you bring me down to earth, foa? Why?

It's easier for me to reach your face when you're down here.

The American Farmer is almost extinct. All there is now is huge megacrop corporations :(

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Originally Posted by rubah

The American Farmer is almost extinct. All there is now is huge megacrop corporations :(

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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.

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Originally Posted by Odd Eye

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

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Not yet!

*completes diabolical machine*

Oh no, my carpet is going to fade faster now.

Dammit, Dubya!

Wow, I still don't know what you guys do in Daylight Savings Time.

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Originally Posted by 41-Inches-Wide

Wow, I still don't know what you guys do in Daylight Savings Time.

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Whine and complain.

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.

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Originally Posted by rubah

The American Farmer is almost extinct. All there is now is huge megacrop corporations :(

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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.

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Originally Posted by Bunny

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Originally Posted by 41-Inches-Wide

Wow, I still don't know what you guys do in Daylight Savings Time.

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Whine and complain.

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awesome. :cool:

I live in Arizona, so it won't effect me anyway. :) :cat:

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!

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Originally Posted by Zeromus_X

I live in Arizona

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*writes down*

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.

It's Y2K all over again. Now my VCR is going to explode.

The sensible thing to do would be to abolish it. ;_; Everywhere.

Someone help me :( what's going on

I just realized that I don’t have DST again. That’s a slight bonus, I guess.

Laugh out loud at resha, though.

People should just use UTC all the time :D

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?

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Originally Posted by Zeromus_X

Well anyway, Daylight Savings Time sure is grand.

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*readies flame launcher

Apple has released a software update for Mac now. 9.5mb

*sign* Dammit. Here we go again. *prepare kamikaze*

*smacks forehead*

My fellow Americans, your government at work. :rolleyes2

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Originally Posted by rubah

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!

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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

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.

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF

The sensible thing to do would be to abolish it. ;_; Everywhere.

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

The first time I didn't put the two dimensions back together and got the bad ending. :(

I think we all did. It's a pain to get the damn Chrono Cross to work right.

It is now daylight savings time here. I hate it.

Hey, that's today. o_O; I didn't notice a difference? *head explodes* *tries to find out really what time it is*

Oh, geez...I forgot to set my clock forward...backward...I forgot to change my clock...

*unstickies*

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