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?"

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Daylight Saving Time is a Joke... literally

[dsands1]

"Surprisingly enough, daylight-saving time was thought up by Benjamin Franklin, not drunken voters. According to http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/, it seems that one day Benjy got bored and wrote a little something called An Economical Project. It was an essay mostly about "himself, his love of thrift, his scientific papers and his passion for playing chess until the wee hours of the morning then sleeping until midday," and it was meant to be a joke.

However, an Englishman named William Willett (how can you take someone with that name seriously? Come on!) was apparently too dense to realize that Franklin was joking. Therefore, he thought it would be a novel idea to set clocks back for 20 minutes on each Sunday in April, and then turn them back on the Sundays in September. Eventually, daylight-saving time came to be as we now know it."

Taken from here

Good Christ

[Mr. Underbridge]

... right... changing the DST will provide you with *more* daylight... it will somehow slow down the earth while the sun is shining, and accelerate it at night... What's the point of all this? No matter how you mess around with the DST, you won't get a single minute of daylight that you didn't have before.

Wow, it's pedant day on slashdot! The point, Captain Obvious, is to provide the most daylight during waking hours for the average diurnal person.

Re:Horrible from a Jewish perspective

[thegameiam]

The definition says "generally considered"

you wrote "I consider all religions to be completely and obviously false, therefore all religions are cults."

The flaw in your reasoning is readily apparent: just because you can't or won't understand something doesn't mean that it's false.

Point two is the charismatic religious leader: while many Christian and Islamic denominations have charismatic leaders, very few Rabbis are described as charismatic. Further, Rabbi = "teacher" i.e. someone who has studied a lot about Jewish law, ritual, and philosophy. Not an intercessor before God, not someone who is especially holy, or anything of the sort.

Let's return to the dictionary, shall we?

charisma 1. A rare personal quality attributed to leaders who arouse fervent popular devotion and enthusiasm.
2. Personal magnetism or charm: a television news program famed for the charisma of its anchors.
3. (Christianity). An extraordinary power, such as the ability to perform miracles, granted by the Holy Spirit.

Clearly, the word "charismatic" is not meant to apply to God.

Now, "brainwashing"... sheesh... what exactly would you consider the difference between "brainwashing" and "educating"? Whether the subject of the education is one of which you approve, I presume. Feel free to correct me if you have a more precise definition, although it sounds like you're using malapropisms merely to attempt to offend.

Please, if you're going to play the part of the angry Athiest (doesn't that get old after a while?), there are arguments against various and sundry religious beliefs which don't require torturing the English language. Feel free to try them. I'll assume you've read Russell's Why I am not a Christian? His arguments, while easily refuted, are civil and the model of appropriate use of language and rhetoric.

Otherwise it's just trolling...

I find it interesting that your signature is from PKD's Valis - are you at all familiar with his theology?