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farss wrote on 4/1/2006, 8:12 PM
Careful,
ours went backwards this morning.
Bob.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 4/1/2006, 8:31 PM
alright you crazy ausie ;)

at least for all those observing daylight savings time in the US - don't forget to spring forward.

hmmmmm. I think I'm gonna move to Oz next spring so I can keep that extra hour of sleep.

Dave
MH_Stevens wrote on 4/1/2006, 8:39 PM
Don't get Taken! This is a April Fool's joke. The clocks go forward at 2am next Sunday morning, the 8th.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 4/1/2006, 9:10 PM
Nice try stevens (unless you just got it wrong) but check it if you want - it's tonight.

Dave
PeterWright wrote on 4/1/2006, 9:25 PM
Over here in "sophisticated" Western Australia, we don't have Daylight Saving, because it fades the curtains.
Grazie wrote on 4/1/2006, 10:12 PM
How passé, dear boy. . . we did OURS 2 weeks ago .. C'mon - Catch up!!

Grazie
riredale wrote on 4/2/2006, 10:11 AM
IMPORTANT:

Set your clocks ahead, unless you live in an NTSC-standard country not in the Southern Hemisphere and did not take advantage of the special $1,995 FX-1 pricing at the Apple Store!

Hope that's clear enough.
dibbkd wrote on 4/2/2006, 10:26 AM
I won't be celebrating DST this year.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 4/2/2006, 11:31 AM

"Daylight Savings Time is like cutting off the top of your blanket and sewing it on the bottom to make it longer."
--Tennessee Ernie Ford


FrigidNDEditing wrote on 4/2/2006, 1:46 PM
How true Jay - How true.

I have no real use for it, but they're changing when it happens for a study on how it affects energy usage, so that may be a little wierd.

Dave
ScottW wrote on 4/2/2006, 4:35 PM
Actually, studies have already been done on how DST affects things like energy usage, auto accidents, etc. Generally DST has a positive effect, enough so that it has been suggested we should stay on it year-round.

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html

--Scott
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 4/2/2006, 6:49 PM
really - that would be fine by me - as long as they quit taking my hour of sleep away and holding on to it for half a year. :(

Dave
TorS wrote on 4/2/2006, 11:14 PM
Grazie,
I thought all of Western Europe had agreed to syncronise DLT at the last weekend of March (and the last of October). So you should have set your clocks at 2.00 a.m. on March 26. Unless there are special arrangements for North London of course.

Years ago, before they made that agreement you could sometimes fly from Stavanger to London and actually arrive before you left.
Tor
Grazie wrote on 4/2/2006, 11:15 PM
Yeah! - Quite right! - G
bw wrote on 4/3/2006, 6:41 AM
Farss didnt mention that here in the Aussie east coast we delayed the change one week for the Commonwealth Games.So all our computers changed over on the 26/27 th. Easy to manually reset but most systems have auto clock ajust as default so any one with apointment books (like my families hairdressing salon just abour went crazy for the week :)
Brian
riredale wrote on 4/3/2006, 9:24 AM
What I'm curious about is what happens to all the PCs next year, when the DST switchover happens a few weeks earlier. My assumption is that Windows does the change based on the "first Sunday in April" rule; if so, it means that next year you'll have 300 million PCs getting changed manually by their owners, followed a few weeks later by an automatic one-hour advance by the software. Most users will think ahead and disable this feature, but I'm guessing many will not, and those PCs will be an hour ahead of everyone else.
ScottW wrote on 4/3/2006, 9:58 AM
As long as you regularly download system updates from Microsoft, I would expect this to be a non-issue for many, since MS will likely provide an update that takes this into account.
Coursedesign wrote on 4/3/2006, 10:49 AM
MS did provide a worldwide Windows user update for Oz DST already.