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Daylight Savings Time MADNESS!
I -THINK- it is currently coming up on 5:30am. But for the first time in my life in this electronic age I've been born into, I am NOT at all sure what time it is.
Tonight, March 11, 2007 at 2:00am was to be the beginning of Daylight Savings Time. Usually this is a normal event in most of the world, but this year by the US government's decree DST happened three weeks early. Why, I don't know, (I don't even know why we even DO DST at all, but that's another rant) but it's done nonetheless.
Now, what this means in our technological world, is another chance for the END OF THE WORLD!!!!!
When Y2K happened I giggled a lot at the people who were convinced every nuclear weapon in the world was going to launch and planes would fall from the sky because their clocks went awry. At any rate as we all know, that tragedy was survived without any incident that I can remember. Every clock I owned at that time went on ticking normally without any sort of problem at all.
Tonight, however, HELL WAS UNLEASHED. At least, in my little world! At 2:00am here's what happned. None of our clocks here at the office changed. I blinked, figuring that they should have. The computer department in this place should have worked that out. Nothing changed at whatever rate, so I went about manually doing so when I glanced at the clock on our phone. It was FREAKING OUT. It was ticking (and still is) at double time, and had advanced TWO hours at 2:00am instead of just one. I finished setting all the clocks that I could manually (eight clocks: three Windows PC clocks, a wall clock, and an old-timey decorative mantle style clock, the phone clock, a radio clock, and the clock in my personal cell phone) with the exception of the phone clock which I have no access to set, and all seemed well.
Then, God save us all, at 4:00am, EVERY ELECTRONIC CLOCK I had manually set but one went BACKWARDS an hour to 3:00am. Currently around me, on eight different clocks, only three agree with me on what time it is. The PC clock that didn't change with the rest, the wall clock, and the decorative mantle style clock. Somebody, please! Tell me what time it really is, and when I get to go home from work!!
Clock #1, The Wall Clock: 5:30am
Clock #2, PC Clock #1: 5:30am
Clock #3, PC Clock #2: 4:30am
Clock #4, PC Clock #3: 4:30am
Clock #5, Radio Clock: 4:30am
Clock #6, Cell Phone Clock: 4:30am at the start of this post, updated itself back to 5:30am by its completion
Clock #7, Mantle Clock: 5:30am
Clock #8, Phone Clock: 6:46am at 5:30am and ticking twice as fast as normal
confusedTonight, March 11, 2007 at 2:00am was to be the beginning of Daylight Savings Time. Usually this is a normal event in most of the world, but this year by the US government's decree DST happened three weeks early. Why, I don't know, (I don't even know why we even DO DST at all, but that's another rant) but it's done nonetheless.
Now, what this means in our technological world, is another chance for the END OF THE WORLD!!!!!
When Y2K happened I giggled a lot at the people who were convinced every nuclear weapon in the world was going to launch and planes would fall from the sky because their clocks went awry. At any rate as we all know, that tragedy was survived without any incident that I can remember. Every clock I owned at that time went on ticking normally without any sort of problem at all.
Tonight, however, HELL WAS UNLEASHED. At least, in my little world! At 2:00am here's what happned. None of our clocks here at the office changed. I blinked, figuring that they should have. The computer department in this place should have worked that out. Nothing changed at whatever rate, so I went about manually doing so when I glanced at the clock on our phone. It was FREAKING OUT. It was ticking (and still is) at double time, and had advanced TWO hours at 2:00am instead of just one. I finished setting all the clocks that I could manually (eight clocks: three Windows PC clocks, a wall clock, and an old-timey decorative mantle style clock, the phone clock, a radio clock, and the clock in my personal cell phone) with the exception of the phone clock which I have no access to set, and all seemed well.
Then, God save us all, at 4:00am, EVERY ELECTRONIC CLOCK I had manually set but one went BACKWARDS an hour to 3:00am. Currently around me, on eight different clocks, only three agree with me on what time it is. The PC clock that didn't change with the rest, the wall clock, and the decorative mantle style clock. Somebody, please! Tell me what time it really is, and when I get to go home from work!!
Clock #1, The Wall Clock: 5:30am
Clock #2, PC Clock #1: 5:30am
Clock #3, PC Clock #2: 4:30am
Clock #4, PC Clock #3: 4:30am
Clock #5, Radio Clock: 4:30am
Clock #6, Cell Phone Clock: 4:30am at the start of this post, updated itself back to 5:30am by its completion
Clock #7, Mantle Clock: 5:30am
Clock #8, Phone Clock: 6:46am at 5:30am and ticking twice as fast as normal
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