European reminder!

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Re: European reminder!

Postby Craig. » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:30 am

my phone, my laptop both those update automatically. My expensive clock that should update every 30 minutes hasn't. ::)
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Re: European reminder!

Postby Triple_7 » Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:28 am

my phone, my laptop both those update automatically. My expensive clock that should update every 30 minutes hasn't. ::)


Ah, todays technology ::)  Scary aint it :P

Now i have to wonder if we are supposed to change now or if we are changing in the spring :-/  Still dont see why they couldnt leave well enough alone and let Indiana remain daylight savings time free >:(

*wanders off mumbling about how stupid those people are*
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Re: European reminder!

Postby Mynameisnemo » Sun Oct 30, 2005 6:49 pm

According to the msn homepage:
The change officially takes place at 2 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 30


maybe thats why the computer's hasn't auto updated to the correct time.... i'm posting this at 11:50pm (teletext time).... and getting more confused by the second........
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Re: European reminder!

Postby Craig. » Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:54 pm

Nemo 2:30 sunday morning was yesterday morning. Its now monday morning.
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Re: European reminder!

Postby Mynameisnemo » Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:27 pm

Nemo 2:30 sunday morning was yesterday morning. Its now monday morning.


Yep... but exactly an hour and a half ago... the clocks went back....
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Re: European reminder!

Postby ozzy72 » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:15 am

Nemo the clocks always go back on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. Traditionally Sunday 3am becomes 2am ::)
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Re: European reminder!

Postby igs942 » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:54 am

Although its good getting the extra hour in the evenings in the summer, changing the time plays havoc with my internal clock. Poor me :'( Cant we just put the clocks forward half a hour in spring and leave it at that ;D
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Re: European reminder!

Postby TacitBlue » Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:14 am

HAHAHA
Am I sposed to read this like you understand?

??? How don't I understand? The excuse you use is that you thought you had to set your clock forward, not backward.
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Re: European reminder!

Postby C » Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:19 pm

Mmm, the BBC seem to have forgotten. Ceefax says it still 11.33...


BBC have apologised for the engineering error today...
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Re: European reminder!

Postby H » Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:03 am

Gee, guys, I was at the disputer computer at 2am Sunday morning when, suddenly, I was an hour in the past. Then I could swear I was leaving an hour late but, according to the clocks  ???. Oh, well, I guess springing forward and falling back is easier to roll with than springing up and falling down.  8)
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Re: European reminder!

Postby MattNW » Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:37 am

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Ah, todays technology ::)
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Re: European reminder!

Postby H » Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:22 am

The result is that now not only will the peple doing business with Indiana not know what time it is but the people living in Indiana won't know either.  ;D ;D
Blame it all on our wise leaders at the state house.  Why is it that when the politicians get involved with anything it ends up being screwed up worse than it was before? ::)
Basically, you're saying that it was legislated because everybody doing their business at the same time caused a big stink  ??? ? :P 8)
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Re: European reminder!

Postby Paz » Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:50 am

 I live in Michigan and work in Indiana, we thought when Indiana went to DST we would all be on the same time year round, then they started all the bullcrap with counties switching time zones, if they get what they want it will be no different.
 The other thing that seems stupid is that they may allow certain counties (St. Joseph, Elkhart) to become central time zone even though every county to the south in Indiana is eastern time zone and all of Michigan to the north is eastern time zone, so you will have this one area of central time zone sticking way into the eastern time zone, they say it's for economic purposes, but geographically it makes no sense.

 They could solve the whole problem by just making all of Indiana one time zone, and if they are going to do DST the whole state needs to do it.
 In my mind turning clocks one way or the other is a bunch of political nonsense anyway, oh, and don't forget that they are extending it another month starting in '07, so we will be on "political standard time" more of the year than "actual time."
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Re: European reminder!

Postby MattNW » Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:42 pm

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Basically, you're saying that it was legislated because everybody doing their business at the same time caused a big stink
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Re: European reminder!

Postby Hagar » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:05 am

This argument crops up every time the clocks are changed. It might be different in some parts of the world but this idea works well where I happen to live. People have short memories & conveniently forget that they tried leaving the time as it was back in the 1970s which turned out to be a complete disaster. Public opinion forced them to change it back. It's obviously slightly different where a huge country like the US is concerned but in this case I think should be up to the individual states to decide on what to do. I dealt with people in all parts of the world including Australia & New Zealand for many years & the time difference was never a problem. It doesn't take much to figure out when they will be at work so you know the ideal time to phone or contact them. This is even easier now as you can simply send them an E-mail.
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