Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Admit it: You forgot the time change too

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 10-30-2005, 01:49 AM:

I just checked the TV program online and it took me a very long moment to figure out why there are shows on at 1am and after that again at 1am. I reloaded the page twice before it dawned on me that it's time to change the clocks again.

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 10-30-2005, 02:53 AM:

..nice thing about computers and some celphones: they do it automatically, thus reminding you to "get with the program."

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 10-30-2005, 03:09 AM:

Electronic devices which set themselves automatically are nice: the problem I find is that so many things have a clock in them nowadays that it takes forever to do the ones which don't. Even in my small studio flat there must be something like 10-15 devices which have to be manually reset each time.

I didn't forget, because every year here there is a debate as to whether we should continue with Daylight Saving Time. The main argument of those who oppose it is that the darker evenings lead to more road accidents, which is apparently backed up by figures showing that drivers are more likely to make errors while the sky is going from light to dark than the other way round. Those who support it point out that in the north of Scotland, abandoning DST would mean that it wouldn't even start to get light until around 9am in the depths of winter.

Personally I don't really mind either way: on a typical weekday I'm driving to work between 6.30-7.30am and back again between 6-7pm, and the difference would simply be which of those two trips I got the extra daylight on. But there are some quite powerful arguments for moving to GMT+1 all the year round. Weekends can be a bit depressing - in December and January the light's pretty much gone by 3.30pm. I tend to agree with the safety lobby about driving while it's getting dark - for one thing, a lot of people forget to switch their headlights on until it's almost pitch black, whereas in the morning they'll leave them on even after it's got light enough to drive (and be seen) without them. And moving to GMT+1 would bring our time zone into line with most of Western Europe's: no more faffing about putting your watch forward when popping across to France or The Netherlands.

But Scotland is so far north that I can see why they don't like the idea of dark mornings. Given that there are time zone boundaries within and between many US states which work perfectly well, I fail to see why the Scotish Parliament couldn't decide to keep the existing system, while England and Wales moves to GMT+1 all the year round.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-30-2005, 05:55 AM:

Nope. I didn't forget. I'm afraid you are all alone like always, Michael. I don't even need to remember because all of my clocks and appliances use SPACE AGE TECHNOLOGY and switch the time automatically themselves.

Posted by Bernard Tonks (Member # 809) on 10-30-2005, 06:51 AM:

No, I always remember. It's a big nuisance thing for me to do twice a year when we could easily remain the same time as the rest of Western Europe. This time my DVD & VHS recorders failed to change due to a BBC Ceefax timestamp fault in this area which is still ongoing.

Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 10-30-2005, 07:17 AM:

oops, I forgot.....thank you. [Embarrassed]

Posted by Andy Summers (Member # 3207) on 10-30-2005, 07:21 AM:

Bugger me man, I’d almost forgot, fortunate we have the Film-Tech around to tell the others, cheers Michael.

Joe’ why are you hear I bet that digital clock above the HDTV is spot on, I need a nuclear clock damn I always forget, I can imagine what it’s like living in Canada 6 mouths of darkness wow that’s cool…sorry freezing my ass off…LOL

Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 10-30-2005, 08:46 AM:

Michael.......we did the same thing here. My wife and I were watching the TV Guide channel and could not figure out why the times went from 1:30AM back to 1AM. Then she remembered the time change. Thank God for her because I didn't even know there was a time change. I used to always be reminded by the news (the local channels were all I used to get so I was forced to watch news or nothing at all) but now I can't stand watching the news because it is so depressing.

Posted by Richard Greco (Member # 2032) on 10-30-2005, 08:56 AM:

My watch and alarm clock are atomic, so I didn't have to worry about that. But my VCR (no Tivo [Frown]

) has to be changed so I don't miss CSI tomorrow on Spike TV.

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 10-30-2005, 09:45 AM:

In AZ, we never have to worry about this silly time change crap (I think).

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 10-30-2005, 11:30 AM:

I was reminded by a manager more dilligent than myself this morning at 1Am as I was getting home.
Stayed up till 2 though for good measure to make sure my phone reset so I could get my alarm set right [Smile]

Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 10-30-2005, 11:37 AM:

I didn't forget.. but I didn't set the clocks back.. I fell asleep on the couch last night...

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 10-30-2005, 12:28 PM:

Didn't forget. Only the central air timer, microwave, TV, alarm clock and my watch need tending. The living room clock, VCRs and the PC are slaved to WWV.

Someday I will live in a place where such semi-annual silliness is not observed. [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Robert Harrison (Member # 3202) on 10-30-2005, 12:36 PM:

I wonder if Dr. Who ever worries about a time change?

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 10-30-2005, 01:27 PM:

quote: Paul Mayer
Someday I will live in a place where such semi-annual silliness is not observed.

Paul , surely where you live silliness is a 24/7 thing all year round [Big Grin]

Posted by Jon Miller (Member # 163) on 10-30-2005, 01:38 PM:

Well, it's past 11:30 here and some of my clocks are still an hour ahead. [sleep]

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.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 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)

Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 10-30-2005, 03:08 PM:

Mike..

The main problem with this 'energy saving concept' is that the guv'ment is involved in it...

[Frown]

Posted by Bruce Hansen (Member # 281) on 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.

Posted by Ryan Gardner Smith (Member # 2818) on 10-30-2005, 09:14 PM:

Ian and I are in Hawaii where the time never changes randomly. Ha ha, no resetting clocks!

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 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.

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 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?