Daylight Savings Problem This Year

[ponto]

In 2005, President Bush signed an energy bill that will lengthen daylight savings time by four weeks, starting this year. That's good news for people who like a little more light in the evening, but the TCS people warn the result could be a problem.

Clocks will move ahead one hour three weeks sooner this coming year, starting on the second Sunday of March rather than in April and ending the first Sunday of November, rather than the last Sunday of October.


*** Ledger Independent Article ***

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 added four weeks to daylight saving time, causing it to begin three weeks earlier and end one week later, effective this year.

The idea behind the change was that the additional evening daylight would result in energy savings. Whether that is true or not one has to ask, is the savings worth the potential headache?


Many clocks, watches, computers and other time-keeping devices, such as VCRs, are already programmed to change for daylight saving time on the first Sunday in April. While the one-hour time difference does not seem like much, for those who keep a tight schedule, a one-hour error can mean missed meetings or appointments, and the change could result in automated processes not taking place on time, according to the Microsoft Web site.


Source (http://www.maysville-online.com/articles/2007/02/15/local_news/2867dst.txt)

[mark]

.............bring it on, I can't wait..............see ya mark

[kdown]

Perhaps it will be like the Y2K panic, much ado about nothing

[ponto]

Did you know? -

The Act was intended to establish a comprehensive, long-range energy policy.

More than 1,700 pages long, the Act has hundreds of provisions.

Major items include the following:

LINK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005)

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[Chuck]

Perhaps it will be like the Y2K panic, much ado about nothing

This will be worse, because something will actually happen this time. lol Won't be bad but something will happen.


More than 1,700 pages long, the Act has hundreds of provisions.

Like anyone here is going to sit and read that..... Hehehehe

[TheMan]

:attention: 1700 pages??? What a waste of natural resources!

[kcredden]

For people still using Win2k, there's an unoffical patch out there, that fixes your computer for this new (whispers) stupidity) brillient idea of congress :adore:

I've used it for several months, no problems at all it seems. If interested, please PM or e-mail me (see below) and I'll send you a link for it. although unoffical, it was done by a large collage, or something trustworthy.

- Kc

[mark]

..........when the day comes....can't we just change the date on these ol' puters?? .............see ya mark

[ponto]

Owners of pre-Windows XP service pack 2 PCs should go into the control panel and un-click the setting that tells the machine to automatically change the clock for daylight-saving time. You have to make the change yourself when the "time" arrives.

[Jeremy]

I don't think nukes will accidentally launch or anything like that, but there's a bit of a difference between Y2K and Y2K7. Software programmers spent years in advance fixing the Y2K problem, spending billions on it. Barely anything has been done for the daylight savings change. It's probably not a big deal for personal computers, but accurate time reporting is needed for banking, accounting, the military, things like that.

For your personal PC, you can double click the time in the lower right hand corner and see if there is a tab called "Internet Time". If your comp is synched with the Internet, you should be fine.

If you built a robot in your basement out of spare parts and you instructed it to set fire to your embarrasing collection of beanie babies in the event that you didn't call in by a certain time each day, you might want to take the batteries out of the robot until further notice.

[kdown]

Jeremy, that's too funny..LMBO

[Flame]

I want to know who told about my robot? It is not the beanie babies I'm worried about it's the rubic cube collection that has me worried. That and if I don't call in by a certain time the robot calls all my ex's and make sure they are all where they are supposed to be. Don't tell them it is set for 3:00 AM.

[ponto]

Did you know:

The Department of Transportation decided to conduct two studies in 1974 and 1975, so in ‘74 daylight-saving Time lasted for ten months instead of the normal six, and in ‘75 it lasted for eight.

The results of these studies?

Daylight Saving Time “prevents crime and traffic injuries” and “saves lives” because “daylight is much safer than darkness.”

Daylight-saving time—it could save your life and lower the crime rate in Maysville.

[mason_chick]

this whole or deal is just changing the time of the clock an hour it's not like we are adjusting the sun to stay out longer. we are gonna have to same amount of sunlight no matter what the clock reads.

[Chuck]

Perhaps it will be like the Y2K panic, much ado about nothing


This will be worse than y2k because something will happen to a bunch of PC's. It just won't be bad.

Owners of pre-Windows XP service pack 2 PCs should go into the control panel and un-click the setting that tells the machine to automatically change the clock for daylight-saving time. You have to make the change yourself when the "time" arrives.

This will not work as written if you have an Internet connection.

Windows uses the Internet to update the system clock. If you change the time then you would need to disable the automatic time synchronization for 3 weeks in march and 1 week in November.

Standard time:
GMT EST CST MST PST
difference -5 -6 -7 -8

Daylight Savings Time
GMT EDT CDT MDT PDT
difference -4 -5 -6 -7

During Standard Time we are -5 hours from GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). During EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) Time we are only -4 hours from GMT.

If you you set your system clock up 1 hour without turning off synchronization your clock will update to -5 GMT and set back to standard time. Dependant on how often windows synchronizes time would determine how many time you would need to reset your system clock.

The patch should be starting to sound good or just let the time be wrong for 4 weeks out of the year. The average user might not even notice there system clock off time till they are late picking up the kids from school.

Devices affected:
Computers Pre Windows XP SP2.
Computers Pre Linux 9.
Computers Pre Mac OS X ???? (Not 100% sure on that).
DVD & VHS Players the use a DST code.
Cell phones and PDA's.
Custom PC Software the uses a DST coding.
TV's that have DST Options in their menus.
And any clock or device that uses automated software to update the clock.
Yes even your Limestone Cablevision TV Box.

Most of the items above are patched and updated automatically.