ProfD Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 So far, I do not appear to be better or worse off as a result of the early DST conversion. How is it going on your end? PD "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return."--E. Ahbez "Nature Boy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Fine, although on the local news last night they told everyone to set their clocks back. My wife and I just looked at each other and said, "Are these people idiots?!" They came back a few minutes later and corrected themselves. Keep it greazy! B3tles - Soul Jazz THEO - Prog Rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K K Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Yeah, and here a so-called computer science "specialist" said on TV that all Windows users using an OS older than Vista could download a file for the new DST time on the MS site. Well, I have some news for him : they only have such an upgrade file for XP users. Talk about quality of information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Tatum Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 I think DST should be abolished. If some business needs to alter their schedule to get more use out of daylight hours, let them do it themselves. Where are the hard numbers that prove it's beneficial? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K K Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Let's see... If I keep standard time and everyone else go DST... And if I need to wake up one hour earlier than supposed, but my boss needs me to call him one hour later than he normally finishes his lunch on Tuesdays, what time will it be in Paris when we are hanging the phone? Let's abolish DST. Our lives are already way too complicated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3_john Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 I think DST should be abolished. If some business needs to alter their schedule to get more use out of daylight hours, let them do it themselves. Where are the hard numbers that prove it's beneficial? I dunno, its supposed to save energy and there are statistics (somewhere) apparently that back that up. All I know is that, from an IT perspective, moving this up a couple weeks in Spring and back in Fall was probably the single biggest productivity killer of 2007. The company I work for spent literally hundreds of man-hours planning and testing for this change. Just when I think the idiocy of Washington couldn't be any worse, people elect an even dumber set of idiots (well intentioned, but idiots none the less). /rant John GP sacred cow of the year: Jimmy Vaughan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanker. Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Having lived without DST for all of my 34 years until last year, and now having lived with it for a year, I can say without reservation that it is the absolute stupidest idea ever, and the effect in fall when you turn your clocks back and all of a sudden life is 10 times darker in the evening than it was the day before is demoralizing to say the least. Were it abolished tomorrow, I would be joyous. It's such a stupidly arbitrary construct. A ROMpler is just a polyphonic turntable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverDragonSoun Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 I was going to play devils advocate to try and defend DST but I couldn't find anything that made any real sense. Begin the day with a friendly voice A companion, unobtrusive - Rush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K K Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Another solution would be the HHDST (half-hour DST). We could then stay at the same hour all year long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfD Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 If DST is about decreasing the time lights are in use, why not turn them off during working hours? Companies might have to hire one more redundant employee i.e. CHOKLO--Chief Head of Keeping Lights Off. PD "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return."--E. Ahbez "Nature Boy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Pierce Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Well, I like DST. It is sort of dumb that they changed the schedule, but I like the extra daylight during my "normal" evening hours. The idea of changing your personal schedule when others don't is clearly made by someone who doesn't work his life around missing rush-hour traffic. As far as computers -- I have a few FC4 boxen that didn't link /etc/timezone properly, those needed to be manually fixed. And a few Win2K boxen needed a manual fix too. But most of my hosts are on FC5/6, or CentOS 4.x, and they all handled it just fine. Automagic. Not sure how the Debian and SuSe boxen did, I don't have direct sysadmin responsibility on any of those. I do have one FC2 box that seems hopeless. But it will be fine in three weeks. I can't upgrade it right now (long story), but fortunately it doesn't do anything that makes time all that critical. --Dave Make my funk the P-funk. I wants to get funked up. My Funk/Jam originals project: http://www.thefunkery.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Horne Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 I think we should just have a six day week and get rid of Thursday. No guitarists were harmed during the making of this message. In general, harmonic complexity is inversely proportional to the ratio between chording and non-chording instruments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanker. Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 I think we should just have a six day week and get rid of Thursday. Works for me - my least favorite steady is my Thursday steady. A ROMpler is just a polyphonic turntable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfD Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 Well, considering Monday is the least productive work day for many (weekend hangovers, calling in sick, etc.), employers could reduce it to 1/2 day all year around. That would be a more viable solution than the smoke and mirrors of manipulating DST. PD "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return."--E. Ahbez "Nature Boy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gismo Recording Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 The bad thing is that they extended it into November. It already extended too long into October. Now it will not get light until 8:30 AM the last week of DST. Ken Denny Gismo Recording So Cliché Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SK Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Another solution would be the HHDST (half-hour DST). We could then stay at the same hour all year long. I'd vote for that. Or just knock 7 hours off of Monday. That works for me. CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/stevekessler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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