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Impact of Daylight Savings Time Changes?
jason718 writes "With the pending changes to U.S. Daylight Savings Time, what impact will those changes have to existing systems and their applications? Are some operating systems more open than others with regard to the configuration of Daylight Savings Time start and end dates, or will we need yet another update or patch to modify the internal calendar?"
Are some operating systems more open than others with regard to the configuration of Daylight Savings Time start and end dates, or will we need yet another update or patch to modify the internal calendar?
Wouldn't a patch for this sort of thing require all of 10 seconds to make?
This seems like it is going to be a great deal of trouble. Although most software will be fairly easily patched, it still seems like a hastle. People will inevitably forget to patch, and different will be handling time differently.
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from the article:
"and airline officials said it would have complicated scheduling of international flights."
But the US and Europe already change to daylight savings at different times and some countries don't implement it at all. So how does it really make any difference?
They'll just think it's the wrong time. Makes no difference to DVD players. Important for clocks, but these can be set manually twice a year.
Few devices adjust for DST. To my knowledge, only computers do this. And that can be turned off and done manually if need be.
* May vary dependig on your location, only applies outside of the USA.
#include "coucou.h"
We travelled the world with my (now older) kids last year .... halloween found us in India ... pumpkins were in short supply ... in the end we carved watermelons, they work great if you leave a little red flesh
"Are some operating systems more open than others with regard to the configuration of Daylight Savings Time start and end dates, or will we need yet another update or patch to modify the internal calendar?"
I'm pretty sure all operating systems will need to be updated to work with this new system...lol. BIOSes too.
"A truly wise man realizes he knows nothing."
The absurdity of fooling yourself by changing the clocks (not really unlike those that set their alarm clock fast so they are never late) reminds me of a former coworker, who came in later to work every day. One day he came in as we were leaving for lunch. Soon he came in on a Friday as we were all leaving for happy hour. Eventually he "lapped" himself and started coming in so late it was early the next morning, and eventually he came in at a normal start time of 8:00 or so. Of course, the trend continued and he just started coming in later again.
Arizona's position on Daylight Saving Time is enlightened, and we should all follow their shining example.
If you want to go to work an hour earlier, just go to work an hour earlier. All this goddamn "pretend it's an hour later than it really is" bullshit is completely whacked. People who think DST is a good idea are like people who think setting their alarm clocks ten minutes later will improve the likelihood that they will get to work on time.
Noon should always be when the sun is directly over my time-zone. If you want to adjust the business day according to available sunlight, it makes more sense to: 1. Change the start time instead of the clocks. 2. Do it gradually, the way available light changes gradually. That way you don't fuck up people's sleep cycles either.
I wonder if the health problems (and sick days off work) due to disrupted sleep patterns has actually cost our society more than the energy saved by the whole DST concept. Seems like something which should have been studied by now...
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
My TV does. So does my VCR
Don't these use the time code encoded in the VBI in TV broadcasts?
Oh, for heaven sake grow up folks. Living in a country (New Zealand) that has had day light savings for as long as I can remember, I can tell you that the worst that has happened is that I've forget to reset my alarm and slept in.
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It is a little hard getting up an hour early in summer but you can sleep in an hour come winter. I do have to change my watch, clocks, VCR etc. We Kiwis use this change-over to also change our smoke-alarm batteries.
Both my Mac and Windows machines set themselves.
Yes, it is harder on farmers (we are a rural nation), but the livestock survives the change just fine - no cows explode from not being milked for an hour.
The extra hour of daylight in is much appreciated in summer - more time for sports and other outdoors activities (oh sorry I forgot where I was posting
Just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe, aye.
Sheesh.
Ok, let's take as a given that Peak Oil has already passed, just for the sake of argument.
All that this means is that crude oil pumped from the ground will continue to become more expensive. Not in great leaps and bounds, but at a relatively steady pace.
As crude oil becomes more expensive, alternate fuels become relatively less expensive. Sooner rather than later we'll see both synthetic crude (from farm waste, of all things) and expanded hydrogen trade.
In a hundred years, we won't be back to hand-working on farms. We'll have a bunch of telecommuters working the same networked jobs they all want to work now, and the same green revolution farms, only the tractors will use more electric motors and less internal combustion.
Is Peak Oil going to give us change? Yes. It is going to cause a capitalist apocolypse? No, not really. We did rather well before gasoline, and we'll do farily well long after it's gone.
If you want to go to work an hour earlier, just go to work an hour earlier.
That would be nice if the other government rules and laws didn't mention time at all. But they do. In DC, they constrain when I can buy beer, play my radio audibly, ride the subway, etc. Changing DST has a real effect on those things.
rage, rage against the dying of the light
Since I can have an extra hour of light at the end of the work day. That means I can get out on my bike and get some miles in before dark. And before you fuckers suggest that I go in to work an hour earlier, I must tell you that I cannot. I work in television, and programming doesn't shift with DST. If something airs at 3pm, it airs at 3pm.
Geothermal Heat Pumps! Now we're talkin'!
My Dad, about 17 years ago got holt of several hundred feet of stainless steel tubing. Nice fairly thick walls. We borrowed a drilling rig and bored seven shafts in the backyard. Each about 85 feet deep. Insert the tubing which Dad had wielded into long shinny 'wickets' about 78 feet long. Wield the 'wickets' together in series, and viola closed cooling loop. Add a heat exchanger in the form of a 130 gallon stainless steel canister. Add one reversible compressor and we had a geothermal heat pump.
When the Heat Wave of 00 hit we had the electric company making inquires about how little electricity we were using in August and September of that year. --Much malevolent laughter on my and my Dad's part--
I don't expect that the stainless steel tubing to give me problems over the next 30 years. A garbage can rack that my Dad made out of lower quality stainless in 1952 is still soldiering on with but the most minor degradation. Water line that Dad make from the same lot of tubing as the garbage can rack was used by several relatives as water pipes from their rural water wells. They have never clogged since they were installed in the late 40s. They have be reliable for nearly 60 years. I figure that my cooling loop should out last me.
Since the cooling loop in the major difference between a standard heat pump and a geothermal heat pump I should not have any greater maintenance problems than one would have with a standard heat pump.
With a house of just less than 1500 square feet I always get an electric bill of that is less than $100.00. Dad also had the house insulated out the wazoo, so that is also a help.
I use mostly fluorescent lighting, and am considering running 12 V wiring to power LED lighting. LED lighting used in conjunction with a bank of deep cycle battering being charged by photovoltaic panels would likely cut my electric bill by about $5.00- $15.00/month. Depending on the hours of daylight of that month. Mainly though I want lighting that will work if the power gets cut off due to bad weather etc..
I'm also strongly considering a solar assessed hot water system. He, he; the only natural gas that I'd use then would be for the cook stove.
Yo! Utility companies, Kiss my grits...
"Oh drat these computers, they're so naughty and so complex, I could pinch them." --Marvin the Martian
There may be quite valid reasons to dislike U.S. (foreign) policy, but this is really an internal issue. If the majority of the U.S. population suddenly decided to scrap any celebration of Christmas or any other somewhat coinciding or similar holiday, that would sure as hell affect export industries with some U.S. interest more. Just like Firefox gaining marketshare among U.S. users affect everyone, no matter where you're situated, who has been an "IE only" dumbass. You're not forced into anything. Not this time, at least.
So running a weedeater or lawnmower is the same at 2AM as it is at 2PM?
The complete corpus of Josephus regarding Jesus: "Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day." -- Antiquities, ch. 18 Another version reads as follows: "At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus, and his conduct was good, and he was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon their loyalty to him. They reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion, and that he was alive. Accordingly they believed that he was the Messiah, concerning whom the Prophets have recounted wonders." This version was preserved in Arabic--much like most Greek philosophy currently known to us. To be more relevant to the grandparent, you can't call a method on an object before defining the method. And in this case, you can't call the method before the object is defined.