OT Is it an hour later yet?

[mm]

Months ago, I ran tzedit.exe and set the time to change to DST this weekend, but when I started the computer today, Sunday, it matched my clocks.

I checked the tzedit setting and it said it was to change the second weekend in March, like I set it months ago.

So I ran Atomic Clock Sync and it changed the time by 6 seconds! I just did it again and it says that the time is right and doesn't need changing. It says it's 5:35PM and that it is Standard Time.

The TV news seems to have started early, but I think everyone who says the clocks have changed are playing a trick on me.

[mm]

Agent will use any time I give it to timestamp my posts, but email always had the correct time, adjusted for DST. Yet today, the email time agrees with my unchanged clocks.

In the past Eudora always displayed the time adjusted for Daylight Saving time. Am I in the Fifth Dimension?

This seems worse than Jan 1, 2000.

[Mark Lloyd]

I would expect the VCR to have a timezone setting, like the other such (auto-setting) devices (like PCs and DVRs) have.

[businessman]

I have used several of the atomic clock websites, and I am NOT getting Daylight Savings Time. In fact I manually set my clocks one hour ahead, and when I ran the atomic clock sites, it set my clock back to standard time. Did they forget to update them, or what? This is nearly 24 hours after the time change occurred and they are still wrong. I just used the atomic clock site to get my clock accurate to standard time and manually set the time on hour ahead. What a pain in the ass..... It's not the time changing thats the problem, it's these atomic clock sites that are not changing thats irritating me. They should have been updated at precisely 2am when the time was changed.

The program atomic.exe still says that the DST is April 1, 07

[mm]

That's hilarious. This really is worse than Jan 1, 2000, not that it matters.

I"ve checked with my atomic clock program again and still no change. (It's changed a few seconds twice today.) I don't know which atomic clock I am checking, because I only have a list of numeric urls.

So far the only way I can tell what time it is is by watching tv.

OK,

says broswer error or firewall stops the time applet which url is almost identical has the time an hour ahead of me. has the time for every American timezone and is an hour ahead of me.

Maybe vcr's just assume the signal will in most cases originate in the same time zone as the vcr. No vcr I've ever had had a time zone setting, although I've only had two that could set the time.

[Chris Friesen]

The atomic clock sites send out an absolute time in UTC (which doesn't do daylight saving changes). Your local computer is responsible for converting to the appropriate timezone.

Chris

[hallerb]

Somone called a radio talk show asking how the government generates the extra daylight? can you imagine that:)

[Mark Lloyd]

That's one of the problems with daylight saving time, some people get the idea that it actually affects time, rather than just being a mind trick. Most TALK that way.

The amount of daylight in a particular area depends on the Earth's axial tilt, which is still way beyond any government's ability to control. You can imagine what would be required to alter that, and in just a PART of the world.

[Mark Lloyd]

The people that control UTC would have an idea of the big mess including DST would cause.

[mm]

Hey, I was having an actual belly laugh from bus's post, until I read yours.

OK, that's a good answer but as I said, I also ran tzedit months ago and changed the DST starting date to the 2nd weekend in March. It still says that but hasnt' changed.

Maybe I just assumed that the data displayed by that program was related to the date displayed in my clock. It could be a dummy program that Microsoft provides to fool the terrorists. Sort of like the Soviets, and probably the Russians before and after them, wouldn't print complete maps of Moscow, to make things harder for invading armies.

[mm]

A friend of mine with Windows XP didn't do anything to change the dates, not with TZEDIT (Time Zone Edit) or any other way, and she said her time still changed correctly. She has Verizon Cable. Do you think Verizon somehow updated her dates for the DST change?

OTOH, I checked again and TZEDIT is supposed to work with win98SE. It's supposed to be included on the CD, although I dl'd a copy.

Also, I decided to turn off the DST change on the TZEDIT screen so I could turn it back on, but when I unchecked the box, it deleted all the dates and times!

[Andy Asberry]

I can't answer your question. I want to know the location of a bank where I can deposit my daylight savings. And how is interest on my account compounded?

--Andy Asberry--

------Texas-----

[Oren]

A government person (EST) called one day wanting to speak with the boss. I explained he was not in at the time. The guy was getting a little "uppity" with me like I was not telling the truth.

Finally, I said; Sir we are on (PST) 8:00AM in your office equates to

5:00 AM in his office.

"Oh" was his response.

-- Oren

"If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me."

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I know that Chemical Bank in NYC is a good place to deposit chemicals. Even if you deposit money, you have to bring in beakers and flasks to get your interest.

And at the Amalgamated Clothing bank, if you deposit a mink stole, in about 30 years you can withdraw a mink coat.

[Mark Lloyd]

And if the time was actually different, one person on the phone would be hearing sounds from the future.

[Mark Lloyd]

Verizon Cable? Strangely, Verizon is the PHONE company here.

[Mark Lloyd]

I tend to laugh quietly whenever I hear about Daylight Saving Time (whether misspelled or not). It looks like people are so stupid they think they're actually SAVING something, rather than just playing mind games with themselves.

[Kurt Ullman]

There are supposed to be a whole bunch of studies that show savings in energy. I never have actually seen WHERE, although I would guess most of it is probably not having to turn on lights until later.

[mm]

You're right. Verizon DSL!

[mm]

Cool. That sounds great.