[Boatanchors] Your Time May Spring Ahead Again Sunday!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Yo Dick,

Since I am now totally blind, DST really does not do a heck of a lot for me 
either! (LOL!)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard W. Solomon" <w1ksz at earthlink.net>
To: "Sandy" <ebjr37 at charter.net>; "Duane Fischer,W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>; 
<boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Your Time May Spring Ahead Again Sunday!


> 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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