Daylight Saving Time: Is your DU clock displaying the correct time?

[Swamp Rat]

Mine was off by two hours after Midnight, and now it is off by one hour (Central Time Zone). Is anyone else having the same problem in their time zone?

[NMDemDist2]

1. yeah, it's an hour off n/t

[Pirate Smile]

2. It is an hour off -it hasn't "sprung forward".

[stellanoir]

3. Mine's off by an hour.

The early time change is a mere nefarious Republican plot to muck up astrological calculations for years to come.

I swear it is.

[saltpoint]

4. Yep. Mine's off an hour. And I blame Alberto Gonzales.

[Swamp Rat]

5. Poor Alberto!

You're dead to me now Old Crusoe! :cry:




:D Guten Morgen! :hi:

[saltpoint]

6. LOL! I'm dead to myself, to tell the truth.

Hi ya!

[TahitiNut]

7. In order to see the DST-adjusted time-stamps on DU (for my posts and others) ...

... I adjusted my "Preferences" to reflect a Time Zone to the east of me rather that the one I'm in (EDT). I assume that's due to the server's failure to incorporate the DST offset.

(Yes... I've reset ALL the clocks in my home and on my system.)

[Swamp Rat]

9. Yes, I was going to do that, but then decided to post this first,

just to make sure there isn't a gremlin in my computer. :D

[bookman]

8. Mine is fine

I'm Central DST.

The change didn't offically occur until 2am.

[TahitiNut]

10. Are you sure? Does the time-stamp on your post say "12:11 pm" to YOU?

If not, then DU isn't reflecting your DST adjustment.

[bookman]

36. It said 12:14

The time has been right on the DU homepage as well.

[TahitiNut]

41. OK ... let's compare what the homepage says for each of us...

For me, the DU Home page says: "Sun 09th Mar 2008, 05:53 PM (Canada/Atlantic Canada)"

While the date and time are correct and match my local time, the timezone is incorrect because I had to change it in my Preferences in order to get the timestamp correctly displayed.

What does it say for you? Is the time correct as well as the parenthesized timezone??

[Swamp Rat]

11. Well, I am CST and it is off by one hour.

Louisiana here.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Mine's off by an hour...

It is making me feel weird!

I wish they would fix it...

:hi:

[Swamp Rat]

14. If it was off by a half hour, I'd feel REALLY weird!

:D :hi:

[snappyturtle]

13. Mine is off by an hour.....n/t

[Solly Mack]

15. Mine is but then....

We don't change until later in the month :)

[kestrel91316]

16. Mine's an hour behind. I hadn't even noticed.

My brand new Dell laptop is right. I'll check the desktop later.

[uppityperson]

17. let's see

Du clock is 1 hour slow, computer clock says 1 hour fast. Odd
Trying again. Not to be anal or anything.

[asdjrocky]

18. 1 hour off here on the west coast.

[Contrary1]

19. I'm in Indiana.

I ended up having to switch to Canada/Atlantic to get the correct time.

[housewolf]

20. I'm in Oregon - Pacific Time, my DU timestamp is off by 1 hr

Seems to still be on Standard time rather than DST.

[EFerrari]

21. I didn't know I had a DU clock.

Lemme see.

ETA: yeah, it hasn't made the adjustment.

[TahitiNut]

22. You don't. You have a *choice* in how the timestamps are presented to you.

DU software presents the timestamps to you (and each of us) according to how YOUR "Preferences" are set. The server/sofware *should* make the one-hour adjustment for DST but apparently does not or has not. Therefore, an offsetting change apparently needs to be made to cause that presentation of timestamps to match your local time.

As an example, I'm in the Eastern Time Zone and in an area that chooses DST. The DU server/software makes a 5-hour adjustment (from GMT) for EST, NOT a 4-hour adjustment (from GMT) for EDT. Thus, I changed my 'Preferences' to the Atlantic Time Zone which *IS* a 4-hour difference from GMT.

Make sense?

Remember, EDT = AST = GMT-4 ... and ... PDT = MST = GMT-7. The Daylight Time for any timezone is the same as the Standard Time of the timezone to the east of you.

[EFerrari]

26. Well, I want mine on a bed of spinach.

lol

I do have my prefs set for my time zone and the software gods are not liking it.

Fine with me. I never made the last adjustment myself. Finally the rest of DU is on my clock. :silly:

[TahitiNut]

27. Yum! I *love* preparations Florentine, too.

:silly:

[Swamp Rat]

28. LOL!

:D

[EFerrari]

31. Swampy, do you remember that two years ago

DU had a time change goofiness and some of us were just kicked off the site via the spam filter? I know that Heidi and I were dead for hours before anybody figured it out and resurrected us.

lol

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. Mine is off

I was wondering if I had been transported west. But I see it is just a dysfunctional clock. Phew.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. **Major Update**

My DU clock is finally showing the correct time!

:woohoo: :woohoo:

[lpbk2713]

25. It just corrected for me in EST Zone.

Ed: Or maybe I should say EDT Zone? :shrug:

[Swamp Rat]

30. Here in Louisiana too! Yaay!

:D

[bobbolink]

29. Someone pointed out that a post of mine from quite a while back was timestamped 3am

so, I was accused of being a liar.

clearly, sometimes machinery doesn't work right.

Yet, people swear by technology.

:argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh:

[orleans]

32. we have a DU clock?

[AZBlue]

33. Mine's fine. But in AZ we don't change our clocks.

[1monster]

34. Nope! My computer changed itself at 2:00 a.m. EST to 3:00 a.m. EDST.

Such a good little computer! :D

[Swamp Rat]

38. LOL!

:D Servers set computer clocks, unless one has not bothered to program their own computer to allow for external syncing. :freak:

[tom_paine]

35. DU clock incorrect. It hasn't sprung forward one hour.

Still an hour behind.

[bookman]

37. Strange...

... my DU clock matches my cell phone and my corrected time as well as my computer time.

(give or take a min.)

[Swamp Rat]

39. What is your time zone?

Mine was corrected at about 2:20 pm.

[B Calm]

40. Mine is off by one hour too. I bet FR is off by 20 years..

[Swamp Rat]

42. LOL! ... since 1861.

:D



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