Don't forget this weekend

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Daylight savings time kicks in.

[givemebackmycountry]

1. I thought it was next weekend

So, that's why they were talking about it just now on NPR.

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4. Well, we shifted in 2007 the formula of when to have it.

And it screwed up a lot of computers (including some of mine) that were all used to original schedule. For three or four weeks I was constantly resetting the clocks every time I rebooted until we finally got back to the "old" DST.

Time in general (from a worldly point of view), and DST in particular is an interesting concept and has always been controversial. Some places observe variations on it, some don't observe it at all (like near the equator where it really doesn't matter anyway), and it's tricky enough dealing with time zones (in my old job I had to communicate with people all over the world) without mixing in DST on top of that, and some places only go a half hour, not a full hour. Saudi Arabia was originally even more complicated, resetting the clocks every DAY at sundown (so prayer times would be "proper" and predictable) although now that they do business with the outside world they've chosen to leave the clocks alone and instead publish the adjusted prayer times daily.

But you try to deal with something like, I think, Bombay, which is a half-hour off, or you try to deal with Europe (although they might have recently changed, don't remember), sometimes you're four hours off, sometimes you're five hours off (talking about time zones here) and at this time of year I just can't keep track of who's where when. The Internet is good for checking world time, which is pretty much what you have to go through at this time of year.

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[rvablue]

2. Kicking....hadn't realized. Thanks!

[bbinacan]

3. Thank God

I love DST.

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5. Just a kick as a reminder

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. pet peeve...

Daylight Saving Time... one 's'...

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/rules/usa.htm

sP

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7. You are correct. However, I was on a lot of Benadryl when I typed it.

Sos cuts mes somes slacks.... :)