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Clocks Fall Back

Postby Flying Trucker » Sun Nov 07, 2010 6:50 am

Goodly morning all... :)

Hope those that needed to remembered to set their clocks back one hour prior to going to bed last night... :)

Clocks Fall Back one hour in the Fall/Autumn
and
Clocks Spring Ahead one hour in the Spring

Yesterday was the first day we saw folks having to scrape ice off their vehicle windshields.

I can see frost on the docks and roof of many buildings right now.

This morning there is a beautiful red sunrise and the river and bay look like one sheet of glass that you could walk out on.
The red sunrise makes the boats and the water look awesome.

Several yellow and red Search and Rescue Helicopters were out over the bay exercising their skills just prior to sunrise and when the red sunrise started to reflect on them they were awesome in colour.

After church the old girl and I are going to the old homestead for Sunday Dinner and will probably do a local flight with family, few touch and goes and hopefully stop at one of the local bugsmasher fields to chew the rag.
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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby Fozzer » Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:03 am

Ours went back last week-end, over our side of the pond.

Dark evenings now...with the dreaded Winter on its way... >:(...!

My "Foxclocks" add-on, at the bottom of my Firefox Browser, keeps me accurately up-to-date with the various Time Zones around the World:
...including...
USA:
Eastern Standard Time.
Central Time.
Mountain Time.
Pacific Time.

Vital knowledge for we on-line Multiplayers!

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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby Flying Trucker » Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:20 am

Good morning Paul... :)

I was adding to my above post while you were doing a reply I think... :)

Anyone that does a lot of travelling by land, sea or air need to be aware of the different Time Zones.
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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby Fozzer » Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:05 am

[quote]Good morning Paul... :)

I was adding to my above post while you were doing a reply I think... :)

Anyone that does a lot of travelling by land, sea or air need to be aware of the different Time Zones.
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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby Flying Trucker » Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:56 am

It is an interesting topic Paul.

As I know very little about this Multiplayer Flying I have a question or two if you don't mind... :)

Sean who is in the United States set's the Flight Time and Locations I suppose.

Now we have members in South Africa and Australia amongst many others.
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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby Fozzer » Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:55 am

[quote]It is an interesting topic Paul.

As I know very little about this Multiplayer Flying I have a question or two if you don't mind... :)

Sean who is in the United States set's the Flight Time and Locations I suppose.

Now we have members in South Africa and Australia amongst many others.
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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby Flying Trucker » Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:49 am

Good morning Paul... :)

Thanks for the briefing and it looks like a lot of fun.

Now one other thing.

I was going to purchase a new computer system now that we are settled in our new home/condo here and I have been looking at several different motion chairs now available in the United States.

The system was/is going to be used strictly for flight simulating.

I see you and several others are having problems with Windows 7 as I am with Vista. 

Now that the new Microsoft Flight is going to be released I am waiting to see which way I should go.

I have also read here on the Forums about several other flight simulator programs some folks are quite happy with.

I rely on what comments I read here at Simviation as it is the only forum I have and will probably ever belong too.

I am going to wait until I see what is going to happen with Microsoft and their programs and how folks express their opinions about them.

I sure wish someone made a better program than Microsoft to replace Vista or perhaps Windows 7.

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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby Fozzer » Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:33 am

[quote]Good morning Paul... :)

Thanks for the briefing and it looks like a lot of fun.

Now one other thing.

I was going to purchase a new computer system now that we are settled in our new home/condo here and I have been looking at several different motion chairs now available in the United States.

The system was/is going to be used strictly for flight simulating.

I see you and several others are having problems with Windows 7 as I am with Vista.
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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby machineman9 » Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:04 pm

I sure wish someone made a better program than Microsoft to replace Vista or perhaps Windows 7.

Vista is far better than XP, 7 is a bit better than Vista. There is no beating 7 at the moment.


I'm kind of annoyed about the clocks changing, I had to stay up until 2am to check that the time actually went back on my phone before I could go to bed, before waking up at 7 to go to work. Grrrr  :-/
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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby Fozzer » Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:18 pm

Well...

.......I have come to the conclusion, after using it for a while, that Win 7 is fantastic for Mum, Dad, and little Johnny/Susan to type their Facebook stuff, and look at their Photograph Album...
..but for we dedicated Hardware/Software "tinklers", in my opinion, the excellent Windows XP still leads the way for us!

.....The familiarity, and simplicity, of Win XP running in "Classic" Mode is something to die for... [smiley=thumbsup.gif]....
...hang on to it.... ;)...!

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...even the Retailers I have spoken to, secretly, all agree that Win XP SP3/3 was/is the most popular, and used by the majority of customers, over Vista and Win 7.

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..and this minute experienced yet another, (of many) BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death)! on this fancy Win 7...something I never experienced with my previous Windows XP!

Even M$ refer to it as the BSOD in the Windows 7 fault reports!
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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby machineman9 » Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:26 pm

...even the Retailers I have spoken to, secretly, all agree that Win XP SP3/3 was/is the most popular, and used by the majority of customers, over Vista and Win 7.

Approx. 50% of the market majority on W3Schools is XP, 10% with Vista and 27% with 7.

But popularity for XP dropped by about 10% in the past year and XP and Vista customers went to 7.


So yes, it is the most popular, the most widely used, but it is not the best.
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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby Steve M » Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:40 pm

...even the Retailers I have spoken to, secretly, all agree that Win XP SP3/3 was/is the most popular, and used by the majority of customers, over Vista and Win 7.

Approx. 50% of the market majority on W3Schools is XP, 10% with Vista and 27% with 7.

But popularity for XP dropped by about 10% in the past year and XP and Vista customers went to 7.


So yes, it is the most popular, the most widely used, but it is not the best.



According to a few articles I  went through this morning, Xp users are still 63% of the MS os users. Even that percentage is skewed by the fact that most average pc buyers can't have a choice when they buy a preloaded computer. My choice is XP over W7.. untill they rip it out of my cold dead fingers.   ;)
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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby SeanTK » Sun Nov 07, 2010 3:23 pm

Still using XP SP3 on all of my systems.  :)
It'll probably be another year before I upgrade to 7.


Regarding the mulitplayer flights and timezones:

Yes, I'll try to set a time that works for the majority of users that join us on the flights. Usually this means that those in the UK and mainland Europe receive a starting time between 7 and 9pm. If I know more people from mainland Europe are attending (ex: We have some from the Netherlands here), I'll try to start a little earlier than usual, leading to an 8pm flight time for  mainland Western Europe on many occasions. (7pm in the UK)

Keeping in mind the European time desires, I'll also make sure our Western US/Canada folks are fitted with a time that's not too early in the morning.

Overall, this leads me to selecting times usually between 1pm and 3pm US Eastern Time for the flights.

It's difficult to cater to the Aussie/Kiwi market without holding a second flight, but we've had a few devoted Aussies join us in their early morning hours.  ;)
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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby machineman9 » Sun Nov 07, 2010 3:50 pm

[quote]Even that percentage is skewed by the fact that most average pc buyers can't have a choice when they buy a preloaded computer. My choice is XP over W7.. untill they rip it out of my cold dead fingers.
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Re: Clocks Fall Back

Postby Fozzer » Sun Nov 07, 2010 4:29 pm

[quote][quote]Even that percentage is skewed by the fact that most average pc buyers can't have a choice when they buy a preloaded computer. My choice is XP over W7.. untill they rip it out of my cold dead fingers.
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