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Just in case you weren't aware:
« on: Feb 7th, 2007, 11:30am » |
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Daylight Saving Time will take effect two weeks earlier this year, beginning at 2 a.m. on March 11 and ending Nov. 4. The date change was signed into law by President George W. Bush in order to help the country conserve energy.
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #1 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 11:46am » |
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #2 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 11:47am » |
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Great, so now he's gonna tell me what time to get up too 
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #3 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 12:24pm » |
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on Feb 7th, 2007, 11:30am, Redd715 wrote:| The date change was signed into law by President George W. Bush in order to help the country conserve energy. |
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #4 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 12:30pm » |
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More time to golf after work!
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #5 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 1:08pm » |
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on Feb 7th, 2007, 12:30pm, JeffB wrote:| More time to golf after work! |
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #6 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 1:12pm » |
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on Feb 7th, 2007, 12:30pm, JeffB wrote:| More time to golf after work! |
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Indeed.
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #7 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 1:20pm » |
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Spring forward a half an hour and just leave it the fuck alone.
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #8 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 2:00pm » |
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An hour of my sleep life taken away two weeks too early  . I do not feel the energy savings
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #9 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 5:24pm » |
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Ya, f'ing BRILLIANT.
So, for a few weeks, we might save some watts lighting up the place BUT
This brilliant move is going to make Y2K look like a joke... so many systems around the planet have to 'agree' on the current time (often with huge legal implications, not to mention safety) that this little wrinkle is already causing the hasty re-coding of *millions* of lines of code. All of this is going to have far less planning and testing than Y2K, yet it is easily 10 times as complicated.
If you ever have dealth with transactional systems, you know what I'm talking about.
It's going to be interesting to watch, that's for sure. Think about programmed trading getting conflicting data (market instability) or scheduled power-grid switching (think those SCADA systems get updates? think again). A lot of the problems they expected in Y2K are going to pop their ugly heads up this year. I'm not saying the sky is going to fall, just that it will be interesting to see how many systems falter or fail because of this energy-saving measure.
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #10 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 5:56pm » |
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Funny thing is, last time I looked, there was still 24 hours in a day, they haven't saved me a fucking thing.
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #11 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 6:10pm » |
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LOL.
This is how his friends to him to deal with energy conservation. No need to rock the boat.
Kill me now.
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #12 on: Feb 7th, 2007, 7:33pm » |
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Personally I think that DST should stay permanently, or even better reversed. I hate the sun, so a longer time of it in the hot summer is usless. Better to have it help me wake up, then to wake up in the dark. In winter having the sun out later in the day would give maybe an hour of daylight when you get home, or atleast the drive home in the light.
on Feb 7th, 2007, 5:24pm, fubar wrote:| This brilliant move is going to make Y2K look like a joke... so many systems around the planet have to 'agree' on the current time (often with huge legal implications, not to mention safety) that this little wrinkle is already causing the hasty re-coding of *millions* of lines of code. All of this is going to have far less planning and testing than Y2K, yet it is easily 10 times as complicated. |
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I hope your wrong Fu, bu we will see. In the Y2K gear up most power companies didn't deal with precise timings, But as we saw a few years ago how a small power glitch could take down a now over taxed grid.
Wall street is another story becouse I believe they run on the one brand of OS that doesn't run on GMT, and that won't be getting any updates for the new DST start date.
The Internet running on mostly UNIX/BSD and Google running on Linux will be fine. I guess we will see how the non *nix OS's fair.
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #13 on: Feb 8th, 2007, 3:09am » |
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DST is the fisherman's friend!
I love it when the time changes...means I can stay out on the lake longer. 
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #14 on: Feb 8th, 2007, 7:37am » |
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #15 on: Feb 8th, 2007, 11:45am » |
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OKOKOK>>>>>>>>>>>>>HERE's the worst of it!
Our government has arbitrarily chosen MY birthday to rob ME of sleep..................I love sleep! It's my gift to me! I demand they change the date! This is no fair! I'm moving to Tahiti!
.......Don't make me get up earlier on my bday  
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #16 on: Feb 8th, 2007, 12:09pm » |
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My dear Cathi, you can rise whenever you like! Time is but an invention of man.
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« Reply #17 on: Feb 8th, 2007, 10:13pm » |
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Melly, May I move to Tahiti?
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #18 on: Feb 9th, 2007, 12:03am » |
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Hey cathi, your birthday is the 11th? Mine is the 10th!!
You wanna come to the Acropolis with me and Krista?
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #19 on: Feb 9th, 2007, 5:20am » |
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on Feb 7th, 2007, 11:30am, Redd715 wrote:Daylight Saving Time will take effect two weeks earlier this year, beginning at 2 a.m. on March 11 and ending Nov. 4. The date change was signed into law by President George W. Bush in order to help the country conserve energy.
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So...... come the autumn will he delay "falling back" for the same reason I wonder? 
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #20 on: Feb 9th, 2007, 5:39am » |
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on Feb 9th, 2007, 12:03am, BMoneeTheMoneeMan wrote:Hey cathi, your birthday is the 11th? Mine is the 10th!!
You wanna come to the Acropolis with me and Krista?
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B$ - Mine is the 10th also.... Happy Birthday -- at least we get to sleep the extra hour...
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #21 on: Feb 9th, 2007, 5:40am » |
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Chey, I would need few extra hours to my day. I should probably send a letter to the White House and ask for tips...
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #22 on: Feb 9th, 2007, 8:10am » |
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on Feb 8th, 2007, 10:13pm, Cathi04 wrote:| Melly, May I move to Tahiti? |
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Yes. Yes you may.
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #23 on: Feb 9th, 2007, 9:49am » |
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B$.....ummm...errrr... HEYYY!!! 
The Acropolis??? I hear they have the BEST steaks in town........course, who would know?? And Krista WANTS to go with ya??
How bout I buy you Starbucks and we watch fully clothed people go by???
(for those if yu who don't get it, The Acropolis is the local...ahh...'gentlemens' club".
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Re: Just in case you weren't aware:
« Reply #24 on: Feb 9th, 2007, 10:26am » |
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on Feb 8th, 2007, 11:45am, Cathi04 wrote:OKOKOK>>>>>>>>>>>>>HERE's the worst of it!
Our government has arbitrarily chosen MY birthday to rob ME of sleep..................I love sleep! It's my gift to me! I demand they change the date! This is no fair! I'm moving to Tahiti!
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No need to move that far away....just move to Arizona....they don't change their time there and I think one other state, but I'm not sure which one....I love the short days and long nights of winter, so I hate DST! just leave it the hell alone already.... 
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