daylight savings Time for 4 more weeks?

I highly doubt any energy savings. The amount of time you'd delay turning on your lights in the evening, you just turn them on earlier in the morning instead.
 
That's what I think...I always have wished that they do away with it and stop trying to manipulate time...
 
I like it! I love summer; I love long, sunny evenings - extra time to play outside! Walk in the park, go to the ocean, or just sit on the patio. Yes!
 
We don't see this effect much on the southern edge of the US (SW for me), but when I was stationed in North Dakota I'd get off duty around midnight and it was still not completely dark yet.

That last summer especially, we'd have lightening storms blow through almost every night, it seemed. At 1600 as I was going in for duty, the sky would be clear except for a bank of clouds way off on the western horizon. About 2000 (8PM to you civilians) the storm would hit and knock some of our equipment out (I worked the comm squadron's job control, so we received all the outage calls). Then at midnight I'd get off duty, look up to see the stars starting to come out in the clear summer sky, and look to the east horizon to see the bank of clouds departing our area -- IOW, it was still light enough to clearly see those clouds that far away.
 
DWise1 said:
We don't see this effect much on the southern edge of the US (SW for me), but when I was stationed in North Dakota I'd get off duty around midnight and it was still not completely dark yet.

That last summer especially, we'd have lightening storms blow through almost every night, it seemed. At 1600 as I was going in for duty, the sky would be clear except for a bank of clouds way off on the western horizon. About 2000 (8PM to you civilians) the storm would hit and knock some of our equipment out (I worked the comm squadron's job control, so we received all the outage calls). Then at midnight I'd get off duty, look up to see the stars starting to come out in the clear summer sky, and look to the east horizon to see the bank of clouds departing our area -- IOW, it was still light enough to clearly see those clouds that far away.
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Minot AFB? The place that frequently has the coldest winter temperature in the continental US -- but without much snow?
 
I don't understand the whole time thing. If we want brighter mornings, start school later. If we want brighter evenings, start work/school earlier. Why we have to go through this clock changing mess, I'm totally befuddled by.
I'm especially annoyed because I work this Sunday morning. And because of the time change, my getting up at 4:30 am will feel like getting up at 3:30 am. And since I've had trouble falling asleep lately anyway, won't THAT be fun!!
 
Zhena said:
Minot AFB? The place that frequently has the coldest winter temperature in the continental US -- but without much snow?
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Grand Forks AFB. In the eastern part of the state. Though it seemed that we'd get the colder weather a lot of the time, since the arctic air mass would come down from Canada and sit on the north-eastern corner of ND but not extend to the west where Minot is -- that's the same arctic air mass that would sit on Int'l Falls, MN, most frequently the official coldest spot in the nation. But most of the storms would come in from the Pacific and hit Minot before it hit us, so they'd usually get it worse. No matter how bad it got, we could at least find comfort in the thought that it was worse in Minot.

Rhyme learned in basic: "Why not Minot? Freezin's the reason."

And, yes, in the dead of winter it would get too cold to snow. Cold air can't hold water vapor. Remember that the geographical center of North America is just outside of Rugby, ND -- we've been to the middle of nowhere and we had our picture taken next to the marker (http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?visitid=11375).
Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby%2C_ND. I just read their note that: "In the movie Fight Club, adherents are instructed to re-route their bosses' mail to Rugby, North Dakota." Yep, to the middle of nowhere.
 
Joe said:
I highly doubt any energy savings. The amount of time you'd delay turning on your lights in the evening, you just turn them on earlier in the morning instead.
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Like I wrote, it depends on your latitude. In some parts of Canada they have 2 hrs time offset. But it can potentially save a lot of energy, and everything you can save is for the best.
 
say, i just realized that we went out of DST late last year (novement instead of october, right?) and we're going into it very early (it's not even mid-march and it used to be late april)...

for those that don't like the "shorter" daylight hours in the winter, this is actually very good news!
 
Did anyone have to manually adjust their computer clock? Mine switched over automatically. I'm on Windows XP. Now, if only all my other clocks would automatically adjust themselves. :confused:
 
My XP also switched over just fine. That is what the patch was supposed to do and it did it. I haven't fired up my ME laptop yet, but there wasn't even any patch offered for it so I'll have to change it manually.

Which raised a question in my mind last night. The computer problem this presents isn't over yet. We manually change our older computers, VCRs, TVs, etc, that were set to automatically adjust for daylight savings but failed last night because they didn't know the new rules. And then in two weeks, they automatically adjust as they were designed to. And now they're two hours ahead instead of only one.
 
Yeah, you'll probably have to adjust older computers back by an hour in 2 weeks.

My windows mobile phone didn't update on it's own. I knew that there was going to be no patch for these phones (long story why there can't be a patch, but this time the evilness came from phone operators of the world, not M$). My Vista laptop changed over just fine. But my email servers are still stuck in the non-DST timezone.

It's just plain stupid desing of software that won't just use the operating system's time and use its own time management - like exchange server (email), calendering etc. If you rely on outlook for calendar, you might be better off downloading a tool (which i think has been released by microsoft) that will fixup all your entries. Don't change it manually - it will go wrong in subtle ways that you can't anticipate :)
 
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