[Boatanchors] Your Time May Spring Ahead Again Sunday!

[Richard W. Solomon]

Arizona has ignored DST for years. We don't need an extra hour
of sunshine. We have plenty.

73, Dick, W1KSZ/7

-----Original Message-----
>From: Sandy <ebjr37 at charter.net>
>Sent: Mar 29, 2008 5:58 PM
>To: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>, boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Your Time May Spring Ahead Again Sunday!
>
>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
>> HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
>> hhrp.w9wze.net
>>
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