[Boatanchors] Your Time May Spring Ahead Again Sunday!

[Gib Buckbee]

What is 'sunshine' ?

Gib, from Rochester NY
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: "Richard W. Solomon" <w1ksz at earthlink.net>; "Sandy" 
<ebjr37 at charter.net>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Your Time May Spring Ahead Again Sunday!


> 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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>>>
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