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Ooh. Thanks for the reminder. I'll change 'em now.
Edit: My computer changed automatically. Which explains how it suddenly got so late w/out me realizing it. Posts: 2149 | Registered: Aug 2000
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Without Daylight Saving Time, in the summer the sun would rise as early as 4:38 a.m. That's way too early. Even 5:38 a.m. is too early for me. I know it's a hassle, but c'mon - 4:38 a.m.!
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True. That'd be a problem for me as well. Plus, it would mean that even on days that didn't end at 9pm, it'd be after dark by the time I got home. Which would be depressing.
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Well, I'm up and awaiting my husband, who is taking a quick shower. We have to be in Huntsville at 8:30 (and it's 2.5 hours from here, so we've got to hustle) for a gymnastics meet with our daughter.
Being the quick-thinking mother that I am, I sent her on ahead with another mom yesterday, they got a hotel room and spent the night so the girls wouldn't have to wake up at "dawn thirty" in order to get there on time. But Daddy and I need to hurry to get there...and guess who's already ready to go? So ready she can log on, check email and Hatrack before she leaves while he's still getting ready?
Anyway, I'm used to getting up at six, but today that meant getting up at five...ugh. I'm just glad my friend was going up yesterday and Em didn't have to get up an hour earlier than she normally does, and then ride in the car for 2.5 hours before she competes.
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My point is, rather than change the clocks, just change your schedule. It makes more sense to me to get some thicker curtains, rather than change everyone's schedule.
Why is it horrible for the sun to rise at 4:38 instead of 5:38, but it's no biggie if it sets at 8:43 instead of 7:43?
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I set my computer ahead and then it took another hour. The only reason I knew the correct time (not knowing what my husband had or hadn't set ahead) is that I KNOW I only set my phone ahead once. Now I have to re-set my computer clock back so it won't be an hour fast.
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quote:I set my computer ahead and then it took another hour.
If you've applied appropriate patches, you should never have to manually change a modern (i.e. with an OS more recently written than Windows 3.1) computer's time for DST.
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My mom sent me a reminder last night, too. I told her it's the 21st century, clocks take care of that themselves. My phone and my computer both do, anyway, and they're the only clocks I use.
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I live in ElJay World. Although, come to think of it, I will have to manually update my pager. Dang.
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The only clocks I don't have to manually change are my computer and my cell phone. everything except for my daughter's alarm clock are fixed, and that only because I didn't want to try and update theirs in the dark while they slept. They're just waking up now.
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My computer and my phone changed the clocks automatically. I will have to change my alarm clock manually once I get back to my apartment later today. The clock in my car is actually right for once though, as I was too lazy to change it back in the fall. Hooray for laziness.
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My alarm clock is designed to change itself. Obviously I can't patch it, so I guess I'll have to set it forward now and set it back three weeks from now.
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My cell and my computer adjusted themselves (I remember when my 'puter downloaded the patches a few weeks back).
Palm emailed me a link to a patch on Friday (cutting it close, guys), but I every time I tried to run it on my T5 it crashed. No biggie -- I have a utility installed that syncs my Palm clock with my computer clock every time I do a sync.
My little atomic clock hadn't adjusted either, so I told it to reset. Silly little thing doesn't check with the satellites nearly as often as it's supposed to.
And all the other clocks got done last night, mostly by my eldest. Except for the two clocks that are mostly decorative, that never fell back . . . Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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The only thing I had to reset my iPod, but all I had to do was switch it from Eastern to Eastern DST. I don't know if it'll switch back in a few weeks though. I guess I'll find out.
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The annoying thing is that in 3 weeks, we have to remember to set a whole bunch of electronic appliances that have DST built in back an hour.
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Nope. Here in Arizona, we don't celebrate DST.
My mother also called to remind me, but that was mostly so that I could continue to call her at appropriate times. Posts: 3932 | Registered: Sep 1999
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We had to leave to take Bob to the airport at 5 this morning. With the hour loss that was way too early. >.<
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I had to turn off my cell phone and turn it back on. I didn't figure that out until this morning, so that meant I had to set my alarm an hour off because my cell phone clock was still an hour off. Picture me at 2 a.m. setting my cell clock only to watch it reset immediately. I stayed up too late playing Kingdom of Loathing.
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Where are we as a society when people complain about having to press two buttons on a clock? On my own clock there is even a DST button.
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We are not complaining about having to press a few buttons on a clock. We are complaining about the government screwing with our sleep schedules!
(And when you have to be to work at 5:00, having the sun rise at 4:40 would be heavenly.)
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So I thought it was my imagination, the whole time change thing happening earlier this year, but from the whines in this thread ( ) it sounds like it's not my imagination. Why did it change?
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quote:I set my computer ahead and then it took another hour.
If you've applied appropriate patches, you should never have to manually change a modern (i.e. with an OS more recently written than Windows 3.1) computer's time for DST.
I like to do it early; I thought I had disabled that to keep my computer from doing it. Apparently not.
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quote:Originally posted by quidscribis: So I thought it was my imagination, the whole time change thing happening earlier this year, but from the whines in this thread ( ) it sounds like it's not my imagination. Why did it change?
Some weirdos in Congress want to try to save energy with it. I have never understood that; I use MORE energy during DST than the rest of the year. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Nope, I haven't changed my clocks and I won't! HAHAHAHAHAHA
NO DST here in Hawaii. It's great. I just have to remember that all ya'll are on a different schedule when I need to call over there.
DST does affect some television programming here, but I don't have cable anymore, so that won't affect me. NPR time also change with DST, so Morning Edition will be an hour off from last week.
I love love love not having to deal with DST. I always hated the disruption in my sleep cycle. And when I lived on the mainland, I lived far enough north that the sun didn't set until after 9 even without DST in the summer time - so all summer I put my children to bed with an hour or an hour and a half of daylight left.
DST is teh stoopid.
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quote:the sun didn't set until after 9 even without DST in the summer time
That's a big part of my problem-- the sun setting later screws up my sleep schedule even more, and then I use even MORE electricity staying up later.
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Another Arizonan here. And as I recently emigrated from California, I must say I really prefer mountain time. I'm definitely supporter of doing away with DST on a national level.
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I want DST all year long. Maybe then, in the winter, I could have some light when I got off work instead of being depressed for 6 months. Darkness in the morning isn't a problem for me. It's dark in the morning most of the year for me, DST or not.
For the past week I woke up an hour early anyway (not by choice. It's just what my body did.) so my adjustment to DST was nothing.
What I DO mind is losing an hour of my very precious weekend. (Then again, I had a migraine yesterday so going to bed an hour early was actually a positive.)
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quote:Originally posted by The Pixiest: I want DST all year long. Maybe then, in the winter, I could have some light when I got off work instead of being depressed for 6 months. Darkness in the morning isn't a problem for me. It's dark in the morning most of the year for me, DST or not.
For the past week I woke up an hour early anyway (not by choice. It's just what my body did.) so my adjustment to DST was nothing.
What I DO mind is losing an hour of my very precious weekend. (Then again, I had a migraine yesterday so going to bed an hour early was actually a positive.)
Agreed. I hate never seeing daylight. I work in a room with no windows, and usually stay in for lunch, so I arrive when it's dark (almost the entire year), and by the time I leave, the sun has set.
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Ugh, I just discovered that the network server didn't change time. So I manually rolled it up till I can get IT on the horn tomorrow. Not sure why they didn't plan ahead for this...
Fortunately, the only damage we seem to have noted is appointments in our calendars being displayed at the wrong time, which was fixed by my rolling.
Oh, and I have one woman who decided that she needed to run a system restore on her workstation without talking to anyone because some icon wouldn't respond... now Outlook is demanding configuration and she's lost all of her desktop customizations. I don't know whether to , or Posts: 4515 | Registered: Jul 2004
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