The New Y2K

[Bills Custom Calls]

I heard on the news today that the new Daylight Savings time is going to mess up Computers.

Maybe I should have put this in the I need help topic !!!!

Best get you fill of Fins and Fur Board



Bill

[FinsnFur]

We aint goin no where  Bill
The biggest victims of this will be hospitals and the like that run time executing software , scripts etc.

For the general user, the remedy is as simple as clicking on your computers clock in the lower right hand corner and fixing the time.

[coyotehunter_1]

I saw a report on TV about this very subject (must be true since it was on TV... Ahhhhh). :roflmao:
Basicaly what Jim said... just adjust your clock.
They also said computers running the new Windows Vista will not be affected as Vista was written after the decision to turn back time. Last weekend I bought a new Gateway machine loaded to the max , so I'll see. 

[Bopeye]

So the question will be........."What time is it"? 

[studabaka]

Time to check for forum updates I think.

[coyotehunter_1]

So the question will be........."What time is it"?     

  .... It's time to go coyote hunting....    

[FinsnFur]

Time to check for forum updates I think.

:roflmao: Gahd!...that's one task I wasn't missing around here. Ya just had to bring it up, didnt ya Stu. Now their gonna be contacting me telling there's a security update being published. 

[Ladobe]

[FinsnFur]

Looks just like the one I posted here, what'ya doing Ladobe?...spam floodin us? 

[Ladobe]

Just seeing if you're staying on you toes or not Jimbo.   

(actually, didn't see the one you posted - me bad)   

[Bills Custom Calls]

I am glad this will be an easy fix I was getting ready for some withdraws. :roflmao:


Bill

[Ladobe]

An interesting tidbit:   Standard Time came about in the first place because of the railroads and the desire to keep schedules.   "To keep to their published timetables, Amtrak trains cannot leave a station before the scheduled time. So, when the clocks fall back one hour in October, all Amtrak trains in the U.S. that are running on time stop at 2:00 a.m. and wait one hour before resuming. Overnight passengers are often surprised to find their train at a dead stop and their travel time an hour longer than expected. At the spring Daylight Saving Time change, trains instantaneously become an hour behind schedule at 2:00 a.m., but they just keep going and do their best to make up the time."

Another tidbit:  "A man, born just after 12:00 a.m. DST, circumvented the Vietnam War draft by using a daylight saving time loophole. When drafted, he argued that standard time, not DST, was the official time for recording births in his state of Delaware in the year of his birth. Thus, under official standard time he was actually born on the previous day—and that day had a much higher draft lottery number, allowing him to avoid the draft."   I was born too soon... with no lotteries when I graduated from high school you got your diploma in one hand and your Nam draft notice in the other.   

Whether it saves energy or not, I didn't like it when it finally first started where I lived at the time - don't like it now.   

We can thank Benjamin Franklin (1784) , Wilson (1918), FDR (1942), Johnson (1966) and Tricky Dick (1972) for DST in the US.

  As far as I know, Arizona still doesn't make the switch.   So starting next week if anybody wants to know what the "real time" is, ask someone in Arizona or dig out your sun dial. 

Anyway, more than you ever wanted to know about the history of DST can be found at:

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/

[Bills Custom Calls]

Indiana don't change their time either

Bill

[Bob D]

I don't like daylight savings time because it isn't the sun time.

[Bills Custom Calls]

There are some Amish folk here in Ohio that don't change their clocks either  :shck:

Bill

[FinsnFur]

How'd you like to be pouring the chick next to you a cup of coffee from your Thermos when it the rocket sled relaunched at 3:00 am  :roflmao: