Daylight-Savings on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/daylight-savings/ Recent content in Daylight-Savings on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:07:41 +0000 Daylight Savings https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2007/03/11/daylight-savings/ Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:07:41 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2007/03/11/daylight-savings/ <p>Move your clocks ahead one hour! Congress decided that two weeks earlier would save us tons of oil - so it&rsquo;s today, not in two weeks. Both my Windows XP SP2 and GNU/Linux Fedora Core 6 automatically updated on time, so your computers should be fine as long as they&rsquo;ve gotten updates since 2005. (I think that&rsquo;s when Congress did it)</p> <p>Enjoy - don&rsquo;t be late today!</p>

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 Daylight Savings and Lack-of-Savings https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2005/04/03/daylight-savings-and-lack-of-savings/ Sun, 03 Apr 2005 15:53:48 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2005/04/03/daylight-savings-and-lack-of-savings/ <p>The funny thing about the changing of the time that we do twice a year here in the US is that no one ever seems to know when the day is for changing the clocks. We all know approximately when the time is: in the early spring and early fall. But, even the week before, if you go around asking people, no one seems to know that it will be the next Sunday. Yet, without fail, the night before there is a slew of emails as one person finally figures out that this night is the night to move the clocks. They email their friends and acquaintances who email their friends until about 90% of the people know. Everyone else, like one of my homework group members who isn&rsquo;t here right now, finds out when they turn on their computers the next day or any other electronic device that automatically adjusts itself.</p>

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