Did You Spring Forward?

Apparently more accidents happen on the Monday following the change to DST. Some useful trivia for you.

I have a better name for this... Maybe we should call it Daylight Scam Time since it seems like DST is more about increasing consumerism than energy conservation.

And what of the tremendous energy & money spent gearing up for this debacle?

Man I'm still struggling with the change... My PDA isn't patched. On the bright side, I was an hour early rather than an hour late for one appointment today.

Although I'm commenting from the UK at this time, I'm a resident of Bangkok.

Thailand does not go forward, or back. Neither does Brunei, Singapore, the Island of Borneo, pretty much anywhere near the equator.

We are stable.

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I had to patch just about every electronic device I have. Blackberry DLST FTW!!!

Everyone change their batteries in their smoke detectors? :idea:

None in Hong Kong.

Forget $47bn savings and extra ploughing time for farmers, this is America we are talking about, and corporate America is missing a trick with this DST nonsense.

Pharmaceutical ageing cream manufacturers need to put their weight behind a lobby to move the clocks forward by a year! That way they can legitimately claim that their users look younger than they are. Sales of cream, and fashion items are just 2 examples of product sales that would sky rocket from the ensuing feel good factor.

And roughly a million people would get an extra birthday this year, which would generate additional spending on gifts and parties. Why did no one else think of this radical DST policy?

As already noted, highly developed and intelligent countries such as Japan, China, even my dear littlePhilippines home plus the great state of Arizona are all smart enough not to buy into this claptrap ... 47 billion is indeed a dream-world figure. And, when I lived in the US and had kids in school I hated this nonesense ... thye have to go to school in the dark that much sooner. It's a safety issue. The only place any money could be saved is for late sleepers who don't have a job and who can squeeze in more golf in the afternoons. Bless all of you still stuck in the mess, I set my clocks once and forget them.

I remembered to change all my clocks except for my old cell phone, which I use for an alarm...so...I woke up an hour later than planned...oops!!

I'm still using an old Nokia and it doesn't pick up the clock signal automatically when I move into different time zone. Yesterday, it showed an hour difference with the local time here in Miami, since I came from Central time zone, but now it's two hours difference due to DST. I will adjust it when I get home tomorrow so I only need to do it once. (Yeah, big deal! :lol: )

We are switching our usual time this year from GMT to BST (British Summer Time) on the 25th March. I doubt there will be much summer again this year :grin: Maybe they should call it Tippical English Weather (TEW).

Yeah the whole time thing is getting me messed up today.

Crazy US govt!

We don't have DST here in Iceland - so I don't have to change all my clocks. :grin:

But people have been talking about maybe implementing DST in the near future...

oh yeah, alot of people over at DP forums were saying that if you have godaddy as a host you can ask for a discount now because they advertise 99.9% uptime. if this works for anyone let me know!

I woke up and changed my clocks then got on the computer to check my site and... WTF it was down. Found out that GoDaddy.com didn't handle the time change that well, all most all of their hosted sites where down I think. PCworld ran an article about a guy that new all this was going to happen.
the article

I just replaced my TREO 650 phone this past week and thought I was going to have to download an update for the new time. Well, that was according to the Verizon Customer Services person I spoke to. But I didn't have to do anything and it worked out. This freed up some time for me to comment on your site John :P

"will save $47 billion in the next four years."

Which was significantly offset by IT support costs due to the mass of OSes out there that didn't have the "simple patch" that people on TV were talking about.

I fully believe that daylight savings time is one of the most horribly-contrived ideas to grace the mind of man. Why can we not just bite the bullet and accept the nature of nature?

thats a lot of savings, i still havent fixed the clocks

I glad I live somewhere near the equator. Not that I have to worry about it at all.. :grin:

Windows had a patch for this (autoupdates) so most people's machines should be fine with it.

Linux machines might need to be updated to reflex the early time change.

My blackberry had a patch applied to it wirelessly so that's cool.

We get an extra hour of daylight. We have to wake up earlier. And we don't really need DST because the farmers are more efficient now a days :)

No... Nothing changes in Hawaii.

How the heck will it save $47 billion? Interesting...

This will not save any money according to two researchers in Berkely, CA. http://www.physorg.com/news92674964.html
They suggest that people will just shift more energy use to the morning since it will be darker longer in the morning. Daylight Saving Time is completely out of date in our modern society and there is much debate as to the actual savings of money.

We did it over here in Ontario, Canada ;). I had heard about it being early but, I didn't find out until last night that it was...well, last night lol.

I guess it's a good idea to save money and energy. But, what is the US saving there money for I wonder?

I'm pretty sure (most of) Australia, Japan and China do not do DST.