Posted on 08/08/2005 9:31:52 AM PDT by JRios1968
NEW YORK (AP) -- When daylight-saving time starts earlier than usual in the United States come 2007, VCR or DVD recorders could start recording shows an hour late.
Cell phone companies could give customers an extra hour of free weekend calls, and people who depend on online calendars may find themselves late for appointments.
An energy bill President George W. Bush was to sign Monday would start daylight time three weeks earlier and end it a week later as an energy-saving measure.
And that has technologists worried about software and gadgets that now compensate for daylight time based on a schedule unchanged since 1987.
"It is unfortunately going to add a little bit of complexity to consumers," said Reid Sullivan, vice president of the entertainment group at Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co. "In some cases, depending on the product, they may have to manually increase or decrease the time."
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The safety aspect for our kids is more critical, as kids in many states will be going to school in hours of darkness. We'll see how this plays out.
I have heard that there are some programming issues with certain applications. I'm not a programmer myself, but that could be expensive and time consuming to deal with.
Like anything else in computer/electronic land, it can be solved, but there is a cost associated with it.
Living in one of the few places sane enough NOT to participate in the DST scheme, I am still amused at the idea that folks think legislating the time of sunrise will make much difference in power use. If its sunny outside, or pitch black, the lights and AC systems in every office in America are on during business hours, and the number of those hours isn't going to change.
12:00... 12:00... 12:00...
I agree with you about the schoolkids.
I know this is overly simplistic, but we get the same darned amount of daylight no matter what the clocks say. I find myself going to sleep earlier when it gets dark earlier, etc.
But that's just me.
It's all Bush's fault. Women, children, minorities, and lazy people affected the most. /sarcasm
I heard similar dire predictions concerning Y2K. We certainly are a nation of handwringers...
Good call on the Firmware. Forgot about that one.
Ok, lets change it one time by thirty minutes and forget it. That will work. lol...
What I want to know is when will we turn the clocks back and lose the hour? We do it now on the 3rd Saturday of October I think. I just love knowing I'm going to lose an hour the week of Thanksgiving (a very busy week for most women!).
2006 is going to be the first year of my "Death to Daylight Savings Time" crusade. I'm going to make a deliberate point of keeping all my clocks set on Standard Time when DST starts, and see how hard it is to go through the entire spring and summer without ever acknowledging DST at all.
They just stuck us with it in Indiana. DST is just another encroachment of government into our daily lives.
I don't know how many of you were kids in the early 1970s, when Nixon tried the same thing to save energy. I was in Junior High at the time, was not eligible to take the school bus, and had parents who were unalterably opposed to driving children a mile to school when they had perfectly good legs. But, since I had to leave home when sunrise was still around an hour away, my parents realized that this was an unforeseen circumstance, and a neighbor who had to drive past my school to get to work used to drop me off.
Not everyone has this option, and children are in more danger than they were when I was 14.
Oh, the humanity!
You heard it predicted that programs would need to be changed and money would need to be spent? That prediction came true. Maybe you didn't know that.
I think that could be fun. I should try it myself.
I agree. The same would be true of homes as well.
My favorite rant!
NO. We do NOT need daylight Savings Time at all.
NO. There is NO NEED to reset our clocks twice a year.
NO!. There is no need to re-set our biological rhythms twice a year.
The time for DST is long passed (assuming there ever was a real need in the first place.)
BURY DST forever!
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