daylight savings

[07xrunner]

so how many people here are as upset as i am that they moved up the daylight savings this year:motz: :motz: :motz: :motz:

 

[K2]

I'm not sure what you're referring to "moved up" - but I can't wait for the time change. I hate going to work when the sun comes up and having it be dark when I get home at night. With the time change it means that I can go home after work and actually get the hell outside. Sitting in an office for 50 hours a week isn't fun.

 

[XRunninTaco]

so how many people here are as upset as i am that they moved up the daylight savings this year:motz: :motz: :motz: :motz:

I dont really care ... its whatevers to me ... but did anyone hear about another Y2K thingy ... since daylight savings was moved up 3 weeks and computers are programed to do it automatically at that date ... and all computers will glitch

 

[07xrunner]

well i already have to get up at 3:30 in the morning so getting up an hour earlier sucks

 

[07xrunner]

I dont really care ... its whatevers to me ... but did anyone hear about another Y2K thingy ... since daylight savings was moved up 3 weeks and computers are programed to do it automatically at that date ... and all computers will glitch

crap there goes all the bread and water at walmart :laugh:

 

[07XR808]

doesn't really bother me. its just a difference in time between us and you guys

 

[Stevenredx]

Im ready.. i hate coming home at dark :thumpdown:

 

[RedXRunner]

i hate it we are going to loose 1 hour of partying (spring break)

 

[MsXrunner420]

Why did they change it earlier????? anyone know?
i did hear this y2k thing on fox 11 news this morning..

 

[lucke]

I dont really care ... its whatevers to me ... but did anyone hear about another Y2K thingy ... since daylight savings was moved up 3 weeks and computers are programed to do it automatically at that date ... and all computers will glitch

its not going to be that big of an issue. there are patches out for this and i believe M$ will release an emergency update for this specific issue.

at least companies are getting it all done on sat night.

 

[XRunninTaco]

its not going to be that big of an issue. there are patches out for this and i believe M$ will release an emergency update for this specific issue.

at least companies are getting it all done on sat night.

oh yeah of course they are gonna have some kind of patch ... but oh well ... time to loose a hour sleep :motz:

 

[xmoney]

Patches were released a while back. As for glitches, there shouldnt be a problem. Western media tends to blow things out of the water far greater then they really are. There should be no difference in the time changin this weekend as compared to it changing at its normal time 3 weeks from now. All of the software vendors that i have talked too have tested these updates and see no issues with them and have given me no warnings about possible down times. In reality, there shouldnt be any down time period...

 

[rpmspeedyblue]

Why did they change it earlier????? anyone know?
i did hear this y2k thing on fox 11 news this morning..

I heard that they wanted to keep daylight savings all year round to save more energy but it was voted down so they came up with having daylight savings several months longer eventually it might become the standard time.

 

[lenie03]

I heard that they wanted to keep daylight savings all year round to save more energy but it was voted down so they came up with having daylight savings several months longer eventually it might become the standard time.

Can u explain how daylight savings time saves energy? I don't get how waking up when it's still dark out makes us save energy, like in the summer it makes since because of the earth rotation but it's still winter people, I just don't get it. I think it's just a bunch of fat-rich people with nothing better to with there time then to screw with the way things have been done for years. Oh and IMO global warming my azz because I still got snow, and I don't get snow here very often. All this talk about saving energy and global warming is BS in my book. But what do I know I’m just a punk kid. :rock:

 

[Stevenredx]

Can u explain how daylight savings time saves energy? I don't get how waking up when it's still dark out makes us save energy, like in the summer it makes since because of the earth rotation but it's still winter people, I just don't get it. I think it's just a bunch of fat-rich people with nothing better to with there time then to screw with the way things have been done for years. Oh and IMO global warming my azz because I still got snow, and I don't get snow here very often. All this talk about saving energy and global warming is BS in my book. But what do I know I’m just a punk kid. :rock:

Lol... lenie, you still mad about getting your x stuck? :hmmmm2:

j/k :laugh:

 

[lenie03]

damn right i am :laugh:

 

[XDsm]

This weekend is going to be one hour shorter:frown:

 

[rpmspeedyblue]

Can u explain how daylight savings time saves energy? I don't get how waking up when it's still dark out makes us save energy, like in the summer it makes since because of the earth rotation but it's still winter people, I just don't get it. I think it's just a bunch of fat-rich people with nothing better to with there time then to screw with the way things have been done for years. Oh and IMO global warming my azz because I still got snow, and I don't get snow here very often. All this talk about saving energy and global warming is BS in my book. But what do I know I’m just a punk kid. :rock:

This year -- and from now own, barring new congressional edicts -- Daylight Saving Time arrives the second Sunday in March, instead of the old day of the first Sunday in April.


"For every single day that we extend daylight-saving time, we would save the energy equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil," contended U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, a Republican from Michigan who pushed the latest change.

Those figures go back to the Nixon administration, which extended Daylight Saving Time to eight months in 1973 in response to the OPEC oil embargo.

Saving energy has always been the main selling point for tampering with time -- in fact Benjamin Franklin's main point in proposing it in 1784 was to save candles.

But does it?

According to a U.S. Department of Energy study conducted last year, the latest move will probably save very little energy, far less than 1 percent of the nation's annual energy consumption. :dontknow:

 

[REG CAB X]

It is really nice not having to deal with DLS time in AZ. I hated that crap when I lived in Ohio.

 

[lenie03]

According to a U.S. Department of Energy study conducted last year, the latest move will probably save very little energy, far less than 1 percent of the nation's annual energy consumption. :dontknow:

So why mess with the sh!t then?