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Extra Daylight Savings May Confuse the Gadgets
CrimeDoggy writes "In the energy bill to be signed by the President today (August 8), changes are to be made that extend daylight savings time. The bill would start daylight time three weeks earlier and end it a week later as an energy-saving measure. Many devices such as VCRs, cell phones, and watches would still operate on the previous schedule, potentially causing problems."
...have Mickey and Minnie mouse as hands? I mean, it could sway the decision here.
Computers with Windows operating systems would need to obtain updates.
This is not accurate. Windows stores time zone information, including DST start and stop times, as human-readable values in the registry. Anybody who has ever used regedit.exe can tweak these values themselves.
Daylight savings time is a solution? I just thought it was a way that Benjamin Franklin could leave a legacy of pain (he came up with the idea i think?). For all Franklin has done for us, I will still kick him in the nuts when I see him in hell for this one!
And now our intelegent government decides it will save us power if we extend it? How about solving the lack of power problem? How about funding alternative energy research?
What does this mean for canada? does this mean for 4 weeks of the year America will be in a completely different time standard from mexico/canada? That just shows how retarded this is...
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I am to you, user 62405.
Having been around as long as you have, I'm surprised that joke hasn't gotten old yet.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
DST doesn't even need to exist... now the dipshit is signing stuff that will change it.
Great! Um, can we get a fucking president that's not a complete dipshit, please?
Jesus fucking christ.
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
Scare tactics always work in US. Tell them, doom is near and people will do anything, even .....
re-elect Bush