[Boatanchors] Your Time May Spring Ahead Again Sunday!

[Sandy]

I thni we should STOP this time changeover sillyness!  There might have been 
a reason for doing so during the war years of WW2, but that's long since 
passed.

We NEED a hoarde of people to petition our politicians to either stay on 
Daylight time ALL YEAR ROUND, or stay on "Standard" time all year round.

I and other people get messed up worse  by this one hour change than taking 
a jet trip to Europe or Australia!  Is there REALLY a valid reason to keep 
screwing with the clocks twice a year?

73,

Sandy W5TVW
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:18 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Your Time May Spring Ahead Again Sunday!


>
>
> Open both of those eyes up and listen up guys! Tomorrow, Sunday March 30th
> at 2:00 AM, was when the long standing daylight savings time plan was to 
> get
> wound up and ticked off. Not anymore! We have the new and even less
> explicable system set into motion two years ago. Now comes the fun!
>
> Even though most of us set our keepers of time ahead by one hour back on
> March 9th, you may awaken tomorrow with a surprise! So when you stagger 
> out
> of bed, check "all" of the time devices, watches, clocks etc. to be sure
> they are showing you the correct time. Some of our electronic wonders
> automatically advance the time ahead when DST begins and set the time back
> one hour when it ends. Since they do this by using a fixed mathmatical
> equation that is inalterable by humans, they will set the time ahead for 
> you
> at 2:00 AM March 30th, just as they are designed to do! You will need to
> fall back one hour, unless you want to be one hour early for everything!
>
> This will apply to almost all computers!
>
> The electronic watches and clocks that keep an ear on WWV will 'not' leap
> ahead, as they do not depend on the DST equation that the non-radio time
> pieces do.Unless somebody at the National Bureau of Standards, NIST, gets
> too much rarified Colorado mountain air and has WWV send out a signal to 
> set
> all the listening chronometers to Mars Equatorial Time!
>
> Since the "dial the time" feature of our telephones was banished to the
> recycle bin of ... a few years ago because according to their study "none 
> of
> us used the service", you can get the correct time by tuning in WWV on
> 2.500, 5.000, 10.000, 15.000 or 20.000 MHZ. It is given every minute. If 
> you
> can not hear WWV for reasons unknown, try CHU in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 
> on
> 3.330, 7.335 or 14.670 MHZ.
>
> Now go make a note in your favorite Crayola crayon on the calendar for 
> this
> November! The first Sunday in November at 2:00 AM is when we must drop 
> back
> by one hour, as in Fall back! However, about one week prior to this event,
> the old DST system will fall back! So you will then need to set your 
> things
> that go tick, or suck the life out of batteries, ahead by one hour for the
> week!
>
> Since almost all the computers on the planet are still affected, unless
> yours is about one year old, one wonders how much input the companies that
> manufacturer computers had to do with this new DST plan? Doubtless they 
> will
> peddle a lot of chips!
>
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
> dfischer at usol.com
> HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
> http://www.w9wze.net
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>
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