Daylight Savings Bug

artifex

Fri Feb 09 23:29:28 -0800 2007

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Entourage users didn't get a fix until January.

(Anyone notice the fancy editor doesn't have a field to add text comments to urls? I had to do that by hand)

Daylight Savings Bug

maethorechannen

Sat Feb 10 02:48:14 -0800 2007

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a bid to conserve electricity by extending daylight-saving time for a month

How? Changing the clocks doesn't magically extend the amount of daylight. But then, I've never seen the point of DST anyway.

Daylight Savings Bug

Cassius Rosenthal

Sat Feb 10 05:06:29 -0800 2007

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By shifting the day an hour forward, the sunlight hours in the morning are 'saved.'  People will then turn their lights on for one less hour, and conservation celebrations ensue, or so the theory goes.

Of course, by next year 8am is the new 7am, and the lights stay on just as long because everyone just goes to work later.  When you really sit down and think about it, DST isn't just stupid, it's also stupid.

Daylight Savings Bug

zotz

Sat Feb 10 08:23:58 -0800 2007

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Actually, despite the issues, I like it.

Sure, everyone could just agree to go to move their entire schedules (go to work and what not) one hour earlier when DST comes in ant not actually change the clocks. And then just do the reverst when DST ends.

What I like about it is the long summer afternoons with daylight time to do things on work days after work.

If it has other benefits...

all the best,

drew

Daylight Savings Bug

artifex

Sat Feb 10 15:24:25 -0800 2007

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It's more than just sunlight. It means that you get to work earlier, before the sun warms everything enough to use a/c, etc.
If the energy usage in commercial buildings is more efficient than in houses, then overall less energy is used. Of course, they neglect to remind people to also make sure their thermostats are set warmer or cooler, depending on time of year, when they go to work. But some energy is still saved, because the a/c doesn't have to compensate for warm bodies or incandescent lights or other hot things when people are away.
If you live in an area with air quality issues, the earlier in the solar day you drive your car, the better, also.

Daylight Savings Bug

N. Dan Smith

Sun Feb 11 07:59:50 -0800 2007

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In my experiences, people obey the clock, not the sun.  At least where I live society is based on the clock.  Schools, businesses, and government offices all open and close according to what time it is (and this does not depend at all upon the sun).

So I wonder what in your experience makes you believe that 8am becomes the new 7am?

Daylight Savings Bug

AB3A

Sat Feb 10 07:23:09 -0800 2007

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The Australian government has also contracted this disease.  Daylight saving time was a joke perpetrated by none other than Benjamin Franklin. Unfortunately, very few caught the punch line.  Now it's policy.  Sigh. 

For those of you who are Microsoft users, please note this is NOT a critical update.  You must plow through ALL updates. We're scrambling at work to make sure our industrial control systems are all following this mini-Y2K-ish event. 

In other news, SCADA users will note that the DNP User Group just voted to use UTC for all outstation reporting through the DNP protocol.  We're sick and tired of all this daylight time conversion hate.  We just want it to end.  Now if we could only figure out what to do about leap seconds...