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Admin Note: Daylight Losing Time
The comment date weirdness some or all of you are observing/suffering is due to the apparent fact that the server on which this blog resides, which is in the Eastern Time Zone (ie, in Florida, where I happen to live too), has reset itself a bit early for the Daylight Savings Time changeover. As of tomorrow (which in Australia is already tomorrow, but never mind) most of the United States (but not Canada or Mexico) will have moved its clock one hour forward. They usually do this in April, but for some unknown Godforsaken reason have decided to change it to March. They are also changing the “fall back” to November. This means that not only do I lose MY extra hour of sleep earlier in the year, I don’t get it back until later in the year. I am not a happy little Blogmistress at all so I feel like punishing someone. Since I live by myself (humanity wisely shuns my near vicinity) and cats aren’t really a satisfactory target for wrath (they move too fast, and aren’t afraid to pull out the hairball bomb), that leaves you, my little friends. I will be looking for infractions major and minor, and possibly making them up on the way, and then I will bring the PAIN.
This post will disappear when I feel like it when I am satisfied you are all cowering in terror when Tim flies over here with a case of booze eventually.
Already an update: oh, goody goody gumdrops, I had to EDIT THE TIME I POSTED THIS FOR IT TO SHOW. Is there no end to the pain the world metes out to me? I need to kill. Someone, please post a long url or forget to close a formatting tag.
Correction: whoops! Looks like I read the Time and Date site’s page on this too fast—probably because the whole thing is simply too hideous for my brain to accept all at once. (Bonus laugh: Cuba has to follow the Capitalist Hegemon’s lead and join in! I don’t know why—doesn’t Castro simply do whatever the hell he wants and the rest of the Western world—some parts of the US excepted—just falls over backwards to drool in approval? I’m surprised he didn’t come up with a fifteen-and-a-quarter-hour “People’s Clock” ages ago. Amateurs…)
most of the United States (but not Canada or Mexico) will have moved its clock one hour forward.
Don’t know about Mexico, but we Canadians forfeit an hour of sleep tonight as well.
/pedant
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 03 10 at 11:21 PM • permalinkROFLMAO, Andrea!
I’d say I feel your pain, but in truth I feel my pain - in the sides from laughing so hard.
You go, girl!
BTW, I forgot about it since it’s early this year, and when the 11 pm news reminded me, I started setting clocks ahead an hour (since I’m not going to be up at 2 am). Now all of a sudden it’s after midnight, and I had intended to go to bed around midnight, but I can’t ‘cuz I have stuff I need to finish, yadda yadda yadda. So now I won’t get to bed before one (or later, since I’m sitting here typing instead of cleaning up the kitchen). Bummer.
Oh, well - at least it will be light later in the evening. Around here some of the parents are complaining to the TV (as they do every year) about how bad daylight savings time is because now their little darlings will have to stand outside in the dark to wait for the school bus. Gee - you mean like they did IN DECEMBER AND JANUARY AND FEBRUARY? Yeesh.
Tim - I’ll help finance the
boozemercy flight for Andrea. ;-pPosted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 03 10 at 11:29 PM • permalinkReally, #2 Crispy? Did we follow your lead or did you follow ours?
Or did politicians from both countries just get together
in Bermudaand plot to screw up their citizens’ lives even more than usual?or someplace else warm and expensivePosted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 03 10 at 11:32 PM • permalinkCorrected, CrispyToast. You will be killed last.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 10 at 11:33 PM • permalinkAddendum to my last comment, in case you were wondering, that means I like you. Now if you will excuse me, I am going to sharpen some of my knives.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 10 at 11:48 PM • permalinkDan Lewis: Jesus, again? They have changed that url more than I change underwear. Off to fix.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 10 at 11:49 PM • permalinkO Blogmistress, may-you-live-forever, can we submit lists of people (who would none of them be missed) on the off-chance nobody spills the italics jar or commits gross hyperlinkage? It would be a shame to waste all that righteous wrath.
Posted by bad cat robot on 2007 03 11 at 12:00 AM • permalinkThe weather is excellent. So of course something had to be done to undercut natural human enjoyment. By rights, it should be raining and cold like it was last week.
PS: new link to a new reference page to the sort of formatting code that we use here. Please visit it. It will HELP you.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 11 at 12:01 AM • permalinkI did get told about the daylight savings thingy over there, but I’m still trying to sort out when daylight savings finishes here.
Is it next weekend? And will it take me another 5 weeks to sort out the time difference between here and the States?
And don’t even think of asking me about time differences for other places. I have a hard enough time keeping up with them here in Oz, and I’ve been here for near 40 years.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 03 11 at 12:41 AM • permalinkMy father might be right for killing. He went crayfishing with a bloke who thought daylight saving was due to finish a full month before it did. Didnt tell him so he spent the day late for everything.
Meanwhile you could have a laugh at this example of Blairs law.
Radical sheik Mohammed Omran told followers at his Brunswick mosque that out-of-control secular scientific values had caused environmental disaster.See green and Islam a perfect match…
And to make you laugh, Austarlias biggest wanker.
You will be able to discuss communes, creativity and consciousness with you bank manager.The whole article is a staeming pile of mungbean pie, bit like watching a baby with a potato peeler for it awfullness.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 11 at 01:03 AM • permalinkI’ll kick in to send Andrea a case of wine—anyone else?
(not out of sheer terror, of course but in gratitude for all her hard work. True. Honest. yessir)
Let’s propitiate the Goddess of Deletions!Posted by Crusader-Rabbit on 2007 03 11 at 01:17 AM • permalinkThe U.S. passed the extension of DST in the name of saving energy. Ontario followed our lead because it didn’t want to deal with the headache of desynchronized time, and then the other provinces followed Ontario for the same reason.
Can’t find anything about Bermuda, but assume they did it for the same reason.
The official explanation of the change in Cuba, as published in Granma by the Ministry of Basic Industry, is that it’ll save power. The preceding change in the U.S. to the same dates was not mentioned in the explanation.
Posted by Warmongering Lunatic on 2007 03 11 at 01:22 AM • permalinkPaypal and Amazon tipjars are located on the main Spleenville page. With the proceeds I can buy lots and lots of wine to cool my rage. You want me to cool my rage, right? (The question is, do I want to cool my rage. I just turned all my clocks ahead and now it’s almost three a.m. instead of almost two a.m. I just know my entire sleep rhythm is going to be screwed up for months. Grrr.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 11 at 01:53 AM • permalinkHowzabout we all change to Brown-Suzuki-Gore Time, where it’s always just five seconds before midnight?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 11 at 01:55 AM • permalinkWestern Australians had Daylight Saving Time foisted on them this summer by the state government, despite THREE separate referenda where the proles voted it down.
Now Western Power, the electricity supply utility, is spending a fortune on TV and newspaper ads begging people not to turn on their air conditioning in the afternoons because it is straining the power supply. Real Third World stuff.
It is hot in WA in summer. Idiots.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 03 11 at 01:56 AM • permalinkThe main argument for Daylight Saving in WA was, Let’s have another hour of daylight so we can all walk along the beach after work. Instead we’re saying, Fuck me, it’s hot. Grab me another beer from the fridge, son.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 11 at 03:04 AM • permalinkAndrea’s paypal button is here!
(small donation just done, Andrea)And here’s a sonnet I just
dash’dripp’d off for you:
Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And oft’ is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.Just don’t waste the donations on food or medical bills or other trivial stuff, Ms Harris!
Posted by Crusader-Rabbit on 2007 03 11 at 03:31 AM • permalinkAh well, Andrea - we get an extra hour back at the end of the month in Australia. So it is like a balancing scale - you lose, I win. Though for being so petty, I’m sure I’ll get a kick in the backside to even it out. I’m not sure whether that will even things out, because I may well like it, and you may not get any benefit out of doing it, unless of course you are into that as well, in which case it all works, or it all doesn’t work, or perhaps it may work, depending on moods and wind speed, and maybe the axis of the sun. Confused yet? Excellent. In that case, you can’t be angry. Unless your anger is increased by confusion, or your confusion increased by rage, or some such combinaton, Captain Planet style, into some superly angry confusion superhero who is angry about being confused, while being confused about being angry, and angrily confused, and confusedly angrily angry.
I dare anyone to make less sense, short of Margo - I even put in some non words and typos for everyones benefit - I hope it brings some joyful memories :p
Posted by Stuart Lord on 2007 03 11 at 03:56 AM • permalinkIt’s 02/03:21 AM, and I’m on a conference call right now with my co-workers monitoring the changes to all of our computers to handle this shift. No doubt this scene is occurring all over the country. I have no doubt that any energy savings will be more than offset by lost productivity, given the hours we’ve spent changing all of our systems.
The kicker is that if the secretary of energy reports to Congress that the change to DST did not save significant amounts of energy, we’ll roll back to the old rules. So look on the bright side: odds are, three years from now we’ll get to do it all over again!
Thanks, Congress! Good job!
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2007 03 11 at 04:23 AM • permalinkIt is due to global warming. AGW the political force, that is. The change was made to reduce carbon emissions. That is not a joke. And other commenters are right in that this has caused more trouble for the average user of computers than Y2K ever did. And all for a theory whose central hypothisis, that the troposhere would warm first, has been disproven in independently gathered data sets.
OK, #31 is over the top. The blog software is application software. It is not something delivered with the OS. It has nothing to do with Windows or Mac. My windows machine also recieved an automatic update and changed time without incident.
I have nothing against Macs, it is what I prefer for my kids since they are harder to screw up, but there are valid reasons for technologically aware people to buy Microsoft products. Honest.
A lot of the Mac comments I see are so technically ignorant that they make me cringe.
There, I am done on the subject, and you Mac owners can wank away on the matter to your hearts content.
For goodness’ sake, folks, get over to LGF and watch The Great Global Warming Swindle. This stuff is dynamite. But I’m sure it’ll be on the ABC any day now…any day…
Apropos of not much at all, I remember when I was responsible for a funds transfer system in Toronto, it always crashed on John Bapiste day (Quebec national holiday).
Also OT, I am still boycotting 60 Minutes, playing at the moment here in WA, for paying a gitmo terrorist for their story. Everyone else should as well.
#35
Thanx for the link.Recommended viewing for Mrs Cow-Pat Adams on her lil’ 10,000 acre cattle farm on the upper Hunter Valley coal seam ...
Some of you may have noticed that the closer you get to the Equator, the less difference there is between the length of winter and summer days.
This is why we quaint Queenslanders and other tropical dwellers don’t fiddle with our clocks.
For most of Queensland, it would be completely pointless to introduce daylight saving time because no daylight would be saved.Hucbald: I don’t have anything to do with what OS the servers use—all my web pages are stored on a server—the hosting company is in Jacksonville, Florida—and they use Red Hat Linux and the Apache webserver to run their sites. As for my own personal machine, it’s an aged IBM Thinkpad running Windows XP. It changed automatically as I was sitting here with no problem—went right from 1:59am to 3am.
Crusader-Rabbit: you have my word. Well, I might buy an an expensive restaurant meal with expensive wine, but that’s different.
CB: mmmm, Australian wine… the liquor store up the street carries several good brands. (Drool.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 11 at 09:24 AM • permalinkSkeeter: yeah, tell me about it—when I moved from Miami to Orlando (almost three hundred miles north) I did notice a difference in the length of days, which we also did have in South Florida though it was of shorter duration than people further north. (I went to Scotland in the summer and could barely sleep—there was sunset—at like ten at night—and then that evening “twilight” glow, and then the sun would come up at something like 2 am. A lot of the hotels my mother and I stayed in had blackout curtains, fortunately. But I could tell.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 11 at 09:28 AM • permalink#14 thefrollickingmole
Thanks for the link to Richard Neville’s funny stuff
This was especially funny - a Global Marshall Plan - and the people who will run it - poets, writers, activists etc!
Now after bagging out wealthy elites, and those terrible things called industries they then are quite happy to talk about spending huge amounts on GDP on their global love-in
Thanks again
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 03 11 at 09:38 AM • permalink(wronwright walks in to Blair’s Pub, notices everyone just standing. Straight. No one is moving. At all. So strange.)
Okay, what’s going on?
(wronwright senses everyone’s eyes moves to him. Suddenly a feeling of forboding descends. More than palpable. Tangible, like fresh snow on a Malibu beach party Al Gore has attended).
Just what the fuck are you people looking at? Haven’t you seen one of Karl’s alpha henchmen before?
(wronwright suddenly spies Andrea leaning against the bar. She’s sharpening a spear. His Zulu spear. And she’s sharpening it wrong! It’s not supposed to be that sharp.)
Andrea! How dare you bring that in here. I think I need to teach someone a lesson in manners.
(suddenly the crowd parts like the Red Sea before the Jooos. Andrea nods, a happy nod. wronwright senses a mistake may have happened. A faux pas of The Academy of Motion Pictures proportions.)
But um, oh darn it. I think I forgot to replace the bathroom tissue in Karl’s helicopter. He didn’t like the 2 ply, he prefers the 10 ply down pillow kind. So um, oh gee whiz, I have to do that.
You are so lucky I have to leave now. On this very important task. Because, it would have proven your doom Andrea. Your doom!
(wronwright zooooms out of the pub like Speed Racer on nitro)
Posted by wronwright on 2007 03 11 at 09:52 AM • permalinkI just moved from Ohio to Atlantic Time, Newfoundland, I guess, for the summer. It’s cooler in Newfoundland anyway.
Windows95 doesn’t handle daylight time changes very smoothly anyway. It gratuitously sorted all your desktop icons alphabetically at the same time, and bookmarks were always out of date for three days afterwards.
Now I just change the clock like in the old days. Uncheck daylight time auto-update. I’ll move back to Ohio in the fall.
wronwright is fortunate that my feet are a tad tired from walking around downtown Orlando yesterday. O yes, he is fortunate.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 11 at 10:22 AM • permalink(Blows out black candle.) Hm? Not me.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 11 at 11:30 AM • permalinkFor those of you in North America, may I suggest picking up one or two clocks like these? You can’t cover the entire house, but it’s one less detail to worry about.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 11 at 11:55 AM • permalinkI hope I get to use all this daylight we’ve been saving before I die. Where is it kept, anyhow?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 11 at 12:08 PM • permalinkReal_Jeff: can those clocks give me back the hour of sleep I lost? It’s not the clock-changing that bugs me. I’m not an inert lump of flesh, just a cranky, under-rested one.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 11 at 12:18 PM • permalinkRe #50, alas, no, Andrea. It merely automates the chore of turning back clocks, so that if you forget about the DST change (as I did), you won’t be late for whatever. I view it as being one less thing to worry about in this age of bells and whistles.
As for losing that hour of sleep…...I just slept in an extra hour! ;-D
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 11 at 12:33 PM • permalinkFortunately, I remembered to set my alarm clock ahead before I went to bed, so I could get up at 5 a.m. EDT and let my boss know there were no issues with DST.
I laugh at the Mac vs Wintel comments. Try various no longer supported flavors of Unix, including a SCO box that didn’t have the source files for the timezones…
I will keep my notes, because we more than likely will un-do this congressional muck-up in three years. Maybe even sooner, if a sufficient number of school kids are killed while waiting in the dark for their school buses. That’s why this was un-done last time.
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