[Elecraft] Datlight saving

Matt Osborn kc0ukk at msosborn.com
Mon Sep 5 20:21:07 EDT 2005


Fred,

 Windows Xp has a registry entry that keeps all the time zone
information.  All Microsoft has to do is update that entry; it should
be a very simple change.

Only a politician would think he could change the length of a day by
passing a law...

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:13:22 -0700, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net>
wrote:

>What next will my Government complicate for us and how?  I have to get 
>the instruction manual, like I know where I put that, to even figure out 
>how to set the clocks, and our multitude of phones are another issue ... 
>I suppose Ubiquitel will set our cell phones and my truck (he says 
>hopefully because otherwise, he is screwed) ... what about the 2.5 and 5 
>GHz cordless phones we have in the house.  Surely they can't expect us 
>to find the manuals ... can they?  (Actually, did they check about that 
>or care?)  What is XP going to do?  (OK, that may be an idle question 
>... I do wonder if Microsoft knows what it is going to do, but whatever 
>it does will surely be billed as a 'feature')
>
>So many really important things in our world to deal with, so many 
>distractions.  Why can't GMT rule?
>
>Fred K6DGW
>Auburn CA CM98lw
>
>Jack Brindle wrote:
>> Milt, if you set your clocks back on the first Sunday in October, you  
>> will be out of sync with the rest of us for about three weeks.  Current 
>> law has us setting the clocks back on the LAST Sunday in  October. Well, 
>> except for the clocks we keep on GMT/UTC...
>> 
>> On Sep 5, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Milt Jensen, N5IA wrote:
>> 
>>> HMMM!!!!   DST now terminates on the first Sunday in October.  If  it 
>>> is to
>>> end the first Sunday in November beginning in 2007, then that is a  FULL
>>> month more in the fall.  ?????????
>>>
>>> Clarification please, Jerry, from your XYL.
>>>
>>> Milt, N5IA
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jeremiah McCarthy" <wa2dkg at earthlink.net>
>>> To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 8:28 AM
>>> Subject: [Elecraft] Datlight saving
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> The XYL to the rescue, AGAIN!...She saved the newspaper clipping  and 
>>>> says
>>>>
>>> daylight saving will be extended one month overall, not a month in the
>>> spring and another in the fall...It will begin three weeks earlier,  
>>> on the
>>> second Sunday in March, and end a week later on the first Sunday in
>>> November...Starting in 2007...;^)
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jerry, wa2dkg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I heard something about Daylight Savings Time changing
>>>>> late this year but have not had this confirmed. Do any of you
>>>>> know about this?
>>>>>
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>> 
>> -Jack Brindle, W6FB
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