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One Step Away from Changing Daylight Savings Time
An anonymous reader writes "Congressional leaders from both parties have signed off on a proposal that will change daylight savings time in the United States as early as this year. All that is left is a signoff by President Bush. If the proposed solution becomes law, DST will be extended two months, from March to November. With many IT applications relying on accurate time information and many having automatic adjustments for DST, how will the IT world handle this change? And with the proposal reportedly taking effect this year, is there enough time to implement change?"
What I'd prefer is that they passed a law making the hours between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm shorter.
US should reaffirm its innovation and move out of the old systems, like the metric one. They should break up the day into 100 hours instead of stupid 24. Potential benefits:
- Easier to calculate amount of hours worked.
- Working 9 to 5 becomes a breeze.
- With minimum wage tied up to the hour everyone could be rich and retire early.
Badly. No.
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Next thing you know Bush will make us use a calandar based on how many days it has been since Jesus died. That would be absurd.
since this is a US thing, will the change affect canada as well? (ok, before BC and Ontario become part of the US while Quebec splits off from the rest of Canada? ;)
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WAAAAHHOOOOO!!!! I'm not a morning person, so I don't give a crap if it gets light earlier. I'd rather have more light after work, when I'm actually awake and productive...
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This isn't a problem; simply get Hallmark to create yet another holiday. Something catchy like, "Don't burn your house down" day to help people remember to change their batteries (maybe even with a pocket to hold replacement batteries).
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It's Y2K all over again. :)
Hopefully the consulting companies will be able to sell the scare and raise the billing rates!
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This is like rediscoving your erection again. In the beginning there were no problems having one. Then it disappeared, seemingly for good. And suddenly it all came back like saussages at a hotdog stand!
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The biggest problem with this change is that Daylight Savings Time will now last much longer than Standard Time. Since it would then be DST most of the time, Daylight Savings Time should be renamed "Standard Time." Of course, that leaves the problem with what to call the old "Standard Time." My suggestions are as follows:
- Daylight Wasting Time
- Congress Has Too Much Time on Their Hands Time
Now if there were only a way to automagically delete all occurrences of the word "automagically." What are you: Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer? Does our world frighten and confuse you? Your cell phone updates from the network because of software. There aren't little demons in there doing it.
hahaha, whoever the idiot is that marked this redundant should have the dunce cap put on.
If we're going to be in Daylight Savings Time 9 months out of the year, they should call Daylight Savings Time "Standard" time, instead, and change Standard Time to "Daylight Wasting Time" (DWT).
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Blessed AZ. Giving the finger to you time switchers the world over.
I agree no DST is awesome.
Real simple.. We'll have Daylight Savings Time, and Daylight Standard time. That way we don't have to keep changing the abbreviation all the time.. Here on the West coast it'll just be "PST" all year 'round.
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I dunno. "What time zone are you in? I'm in GMT." "Oh, I'm in CHTMTOTHT. :)". Sounds kind of akward, eh?
How about we have our 'puters set for GMT?
Another idea is to set your systems time to UTC.
That's a good idea too...I just usually burn something in the oven or on the stovetop. This gives me a weekly check of my smoke detector! No once can say I'm not doing my part for fire prevention!
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It would be the 1970's all over again
Yeah, but EVERYONE uses France for that predictable knee-jerk response...
I would like as an add-on to the bill, a proposal for 13 O'clock to be added to the clock, that way we could all get an extra hour of sleep.
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Daylight Savings Time should be renamed "Standard Time." Of course, that leaves the problem with what to call the old "Standard Time." My suggestions are as follows:
We'll just call it "Standard Time Full Speed" and "Standard Time Hi-Speed"...that'll solve the confusion.
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There's a queen of canada? Or do you just take the Queen of England and call her the Queen of Canada (kind of like prince charles is Prince of Wales.. shouldn't he be prince of England if his mum is the queen?)
The only titles of nobility I recognize are Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon and Radon. And I don't count Radon since it's only temporary.
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We Americans are more concerned by the confusion caused by your 20 hour day than a slight adjustment such as daylight savings time.
English is easier said than done.
And that would give Bush to re-live those glory days in the Guard.
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