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Author Topic: Admit it: You forgot the time change too Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-30-2005 01:38 PM                     Well, it's past 11:30 here and some of my clocks are still an hour ahead. Unfortunately, my "atomic" clock did not reset itself because the batteries in its outdoor transmitter, which also serves as the receiver for WWV, are going weak; the receiver has a hard time pulling in WWV anyway with the obstructed "view" of the northeast.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-30-2005 02:01 PM                        quote: Joe Redifer all of my clocks and appliances use SPACE AGE TECHNOLOGY Get ready to buy all new shit next year because the gov't is extending the daylight-savings season by a month on each end to "save energy," so all your old crappy appliances will change the time on the wrong dates. (excuse me while I laugh uproariously at the concept of actually saving energy this way)  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 10-30-2005 03:08 PM                        Mike.. The main problem with this 'energy saving concept' is that the guv'ment is involved in it...  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-30-2005 04:44 PM                     Daylight saving time was invented a long time ago, when an old Indian chief cut a piece off one end of his blanket, and sowed it onto the other end to make it longer. Note: Congress wants to extend DST starting with 2007, further confusing things. Most of my clocks, and my watch set themselves to WWVB on 60KHz, and the VCR and DVD recorder set to VITS on the local PBS station.  |  IP: Logged Ryan Gardner Smith Film Handler Posts: 4 From: Albuquerque, NM USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-30-2005 09:14 PM                        Ian and I are in Hawaii where the time never changes randomly. Ha ha, no resetting clocks!  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-30-2005 09:26 PM                     One of the nice things about the "fall back" part of the Daylight to Standard time switch is you can get an extra hour at the night club. Or you get to sleep in an extra hour. And then when you go to work it doesn't seem like you're having to get up in the morning quite so early. Of course most of us (or at least I) screw that up in a few days by staying up too late. By early November the switch means nothing. This year that means probably Wednesday or Thursday.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-30-2005 09:30 PM                        Regal's ad in Eugene Weekly lists showtimes for Fri-Sat-Sun. The paper comes out the Thursday before that weekend. Well, in the latest issue, all the Sunday shows were listed as starting 1 hour later than the same Friday and Saturday shows. Wrong. Did computer scheduling software do that, or the person keying in the showtimes?  |  IP: Logged

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