Here Comes The Sun

terpkristin · 08-08-2005, 05:17 PM

Looks like they're really extending daylight savings time by a month...not sure how I feel about it. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_r...p-286516c.html

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Another month of daylight

Clocks will go cuckoo

BY MICHAEL McAULIFF
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON - The clock is ticking on a new Y2K-style techno scare in 2007 - thanks to Congress. That's because legislators slipped a measure into the energy bill that President Bush is set to sign today extending daylight-saving time by four weeks - a change-up that machines already programmed for the annual hour jump may not be prepared to cope with.

Daylight-saving time would start three weeks earlier in the spring and last one week longer in the fall.

"Missiles won't be launching, but it's still going to cause a lot of hassle," said technology expert Lauren Weinstein, warning that the big risks will be to the technologically challenged who have come to rely on computers and electronic date books to help meet their appointments.

"Things advance to the point where you expect things to happen automatically and you expect it to be correct," he said.

The idea behind the bill is to save energy by giving people that extra hour of summer sun for another month.

But machines that work on the old system - falling back one hour on the last Sunday of October and leaping ahead on the first Sunday of April - cannot be reprogrammed as easily as politicians can rewrite a law. Congress last changed the system in 1987.

The biggest threat for most people is probably those missed appointments.

"It wouldn't be a society-wide catastrophe, but there would be a problem if nothing's done about it or we try to move too quickly," said Dave Thewlis, head of a group that promotes standards for calendar software.

And people who want their auto-programmed VCRs to record the right shows may have to pull out the instruction manual.

"It is unfortunately going to add a little bit of complexity to consumers," said Reid Sullivan at Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co.

With News Wire Services

Originally published on August 8, 2005

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Cringer · 08-08-2005, 05:22 PM

cool by me.

poor people and their TIVO's though.

duckman · 08-08-2005, 05:32 PM

That's it! I'm moving to Arizona!

Easy Mac · 08-08-2005, 05:36 PM

Its also going to be huge for the energy companies. Shocking, seeing as how they just got screwed over in the energy bill.

Who does our government work for?

BigJohn&TheLions · 08-08-2005, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Easy Mac

Its also going to be huge for the energy companies. Shocking, seeing as how they just got screwed over in the energy bill.

Who does our government work for?

Enron and Haliburton?

Raiders Army · 08-08-2005, 06:24 PM

I'd just as soon as get rid of Daylight Savings Time altogether.

HomerJSimpson · 08-08-2005, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Raiders Army

I'd just as soon as get rid of Daylight Savings Time altogether.

Agreed. This just pisses me off.

JonInMiddleGA · 08-08-2005, 07:59 PM

I'm loving it, and wish we would simply stay on DST year-round.

Ksyrup · 08-08-2005, 08:03 PM

I'd rather have Daylight Savings during the winter, when the weather here is bearable enough for me to actually want to be outside. Summer is hibernation time for me, so sun until 9pm is a waste.

Eaglesfan27 · 08-08-2005, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I'd rather have Daylight Savings during the winter, when the weather here is bearable enough for me to actually want to be outside. Summer is hibernation time for me, so sun until 9pm is a waste.

Word.

Mustang · 08-09-2005, 07:21 AM

Oh no.. I'll have to uncheck 'automatically adjust for daylight savings' on windows and manually adjust.

How will I survive?

Nice way to sell more crap... play on peoples fears that their clocks won't update on time and buy new.. Don't get caught off guard.. buy new product X with DAYLIGHT SAVINGS GUARD Y2K+7!!!

sterlingice · 08-09-2005, 02:27 PM

This must be the main part of the new energy plan

SI

duckman · 08-09-2005, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by sterlingice

This must be the main part of the new energy plan

SI

Some quack Congressman (the name escapes me) read a report from the 1970's stating how oil consumption goes down by 100,000 barrels a day during DST. What they forget to explain is that the country has 50 million more people today and that 100,000 barrels are less than 1% of the oil consumption in this country in a single day.

Toddzilla · 08-09-2005, 02:42 PM

Well, I say it's all right

TargetPractice6 · 08-09-2005, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I'm loving it, and wish we would simply stay on DST year-round.

Agree, the sun going down at 5:30 in January is too much for me.

08-08-2005, 05:22 PM	#2
Cringer Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Edinburg,TX	cool by me. poor people and their TIVO's though. __________________ You Stole Fizzy Lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and steralized, so you get NOTHING! You lose!

08-08-2005, 07:59 PM	#8
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	I'm loving it, and wish we would simply stay on DST year-round. __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

08-08-2005, 08:03 PM	#9
Ksyrup This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off. Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: In Absentia	I'd rather have Daylight Savings during the winter, when the weather here is bearable enough for me to actually want to be outside. Summer is hibernation time for me, so sun until 9pm is a waste. __________________ M's pitcher Miguel Batista: "Now, I feel like I've had everything. I've talked pitching with Sandy Koufax, had Kenny G play for me. Maybe if I could have an interview with God, then I'd be served. I'd be complete."

08-09-2005, 07:21 AM	#11
Mustang Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Wisconsin	Oh no.. I'll have to uncheck 'automatically adjust for daylight savings' on windows and manually adjust. How will I survive? Nice way to sell more crap... play on peoples fears that their clocks won't update on time and buy new.. Don't get caught off guard.. buy new product X with DAYLIGHT SAVINGS GUARD Y2K+7!!! __________________ You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe... and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainboooow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its...

08-09-2005, 02:27 PM	#12
sterlingice Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Back in Houston!	This must be the main part of the new energy plan SI __________________ Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out! Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!" Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!"

08-08-2005, 05:36 PM	#4
Easy Mac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Here	Its also going to be huge for the energy companies. Shocking, seeing as how they just got screwed over in the energy bill. Who does our government work for?

08-08-2005, 06:24 PM	#6
Raiders Army Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Black Hole	I'd just as soon as get rid of Daylight Savings Time altogether.

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Toddzilla Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Burke, VA	Well, I say it's all right

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