Time Change Reminder!!!!

[Mithrandir]

Don't forget to set your clocks back an hour tonight, for those of you who are in places that use Daylight Savings Time (tm). You wouldn't want to show up an hour early for service, would you?

Note from actual bulletin somewhere:

Today's sermon, "What is Hell like?" Come early and listen to our choir practice!

Now then, should we bump this thread throughout the day to remind people, or just let it sink to the bottom?

I wonder...

[Ingemar]

Ah, Daylight Savings Time. It's like trying to make yourself taller by severing your head and then standing on it.

Fortunately, it's "fall back" time.

[uc pseudonym]

It may be bumped throughout the day by people posting as they ordinarily do...

Before someone asks about this, I shall give the reason for Daylight Savings Time. It is to rearrange our labels for specific times of day so that the daylight hours are closer to normal working hours. This was implemented during wartime, and it may have been to increase moral, though I can't document that last part.

[mitsuki lover]

The Germans invented the concept during WWI if I remember rightly.
Considering it was created for the purposes of effiency it was probably
the Prussians who were behind the concept.
Not that I don't like Prussians,I mean some of my ancestors were born
in Prussia.

[Nate]

Too much info to put here in a regular post, but ML is right, and DST was reinstated on February 9, 1942 to conserve wartime resources.

As most people who live in Indiana know (like Jimbo), this is a HUGE deal since:

77 counties, most of the state, are on Eastern Standard Time but do not use DST, 5 counties near Chicago, Illinois and 5 counties in the southwestern corner of the state are on Central Standard Time and do use DST, and 2 counties near Cincinnati, Ohio and 3 counties near Louisville, Kentucky are on Eastern Standard time but do observe DST.

On April 29, 2005, the Indiana legislature voted to begin observing daylight-saving time in 2006. Currently, the state is in the Eastern time zone; however, its time zone is currently under federal review.

One of the major reasons given for observing DST is energy conservation. Theoretically, the amount of residential electricity needed in the evening hours is dependent both on when the sun sets and when people go to bed. Because people tend to observe the same bedtime year-round, by artificially moving sunset one hour later, the amount of energy used is theoretically reduced. United States Department of Transportation studies showed that DST reduces the country's electricity usage by one percent during each day DST is in effect.

EDIT: Just so no one mistakes me for being TOO bright, pretty much everything in this post was taken from Wikipedia. XD;;

[Stephen]

Spring ahead, fall back. I actaully had kinda forgotten about it till someone mentioned it the other day. I get another hour of sleep tonight, that is groovy. (Just got back from a lock-in with the youth group I work at)

[Locke]

Nate gets everything from Wiki o.0

I just know people are going to be wandering into the service rigth when it ends...

[Roy Mustang]

I think they should just the time to 30 mins and be done with it.


I'm so tried of falling back and springing forward!


Wingzero22

[mitsuki lover]

If you have Luann in your Sunday Funnies check it out!

[Syaoran]

Thank you for the notes. I have changed the time.

[uc pseudonym]

Yes, it is very frequent that some people do not observe the change and arrive at everything an hour early/late (depending upon which time change it is); I ran into several of them this morning, actually. Overall, I can't say I feel strongly about it either way.

[Warrior4Christ]

Spring ahead, fall back.

That phrase is unheard of in Australia. Mainly because we call it "autumn" instead of "fall".

[uc pseudonym]

Many Americans do as well. However, "spring forward, autumn back" just doesn't work.

[livewire]

I don't like it...it gets darker earlier...which means the chances that I will have to walk an hour home from work IN THE DARK has increased.
-_-

...and I am still scared of walking ANYWHERE in the dark.

[mitsuki lover]

The bright side was though if you turned the clock back at 11:00 p.m.
you got to watch Inuyasha at 10:00!

[TheMelodyMaker]

I noticed something odd a while back when we had a time change, and I just noticed it again today: Apparently the time stamps on the board's posts and threads don't change to reflect the right time until after one goes into one's own User CP. Very strange indeed... *shrug*

[Syaoran]

If all gose to plan Canada will be doing the same thing that the US is doing with there time change.

[Nate]

I noticed something odd a while back when we had a time change, and I just noticed it again today: Apparently the time stamps on the board's posts and threads don't change to reflect the right time until after one goes into one's own User CP. Very strange indeed... *shrug*

O.O

Whoa. Yeah, my time stamps were an hour ahead, and I didn't know why they weren't changing...but I went into my user CP like you said, and now they're fine.

Thanks, MelMak.

[livewire]

Hmmm...I don't know if mine have changed yet....

yeah...they have....I think I went into my user cp earlier.....but, I can't remember....

[Scribs]

Thats odd, mine have changed, and I have not done anything about it at all. Even my watch is fast, which resulted in my being early for dinner today.

[Mithrandir]

Hmm... I don't know what's going on there. It's working fine for me. Any one else have it not working for them? You guys that it's not working on don't do anything wierd like stay logged in all day, do you?

[TurkishMonky]

so thats why everyone is getting to classes so late now... i thought the world had got lazy...lol jk

[uc pseudonym]

I use my User CP too often to adequately test if that does or does not work. But what is the worst that could happen because of being off an hour? When they noticed they'd only change it... in their User CP, which would solve the problem before they had to do anything.