Americans, expect your clocks to be screwed up

[thewayne]

Yesterday (Sunday) at around 2am would have been Daylight Savings Time, where our clocks go backwards one hour. Because of The Shrub, we had a law passed that allegedly saved energy, and expanded the dates of DST by something like one week on each end. Some electronic clock-based systems couldn't be patched, so expect a little bit of weirdness. My Palm Pilot updated itself incorrectly, so I had to reset it and shall have to do it again next Sunday, likewise I just noticed a board that I post to listed the incorrect time.

Oh, the official word of Congress and the Gov't on how much fuel was saved by making DST start earlier by a week or so: none.

Comments

[chirssly.livejournal.com]

That explains why my office is freezing. I had to come into work an hour early and the thermostat thinks it's an hour earlier yet. *sigh*

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Bummer, dude! Yeah, that would certainly explain it.

[thedragonweaver.livejournal.com]

I remember one Congressman had the idiot argument that delaying the end of DST would help Halloween by providing more daylight in the evening, and my thought was, no, you idiot, anyone over the age of eight waits until DARK to trick-or-treat.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Hah! I hadn't heard that one! Cost to get elected to Congress? Millions. Stupid statements? Priceless.

[kylejcrb.livejournal.com]

lol DST

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Word! If I ever open a business in an area with DST, half the year it'll be open 10-6, the other half 9-5. I have no particular use for it.

[deborak]

So far, so good here. All my various electronic gizmos are showing correct times.

[donkey-hokey.livejournal.com]

It's part of Bush's legacy. He's gotta have SOMETHING besides a failed war, and all the other fun things already a part of the legacy.

Once upon a time, falling back happened the Sunday right after my birthday.. easy to remember, and an extra hour of sleep was a nice gift. Now it's going to take a little more to remember which Sunday.

[joecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Not all of Bush's legacy is bad. Let's see the list.

1. The Do-Not-Call List
2. (refer to 1)

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I have to add to that list: I owed being employed for a year around the time that I got married to The Shrub and No Child Left Behind.

But to borrow a phrase about attorneys, 99% of what Bush does taints the remainder.

[joecthulhu.livejournal.com]

You may want to rethink No Child Left Behind. There are tons of things wrong with this program, but manly it does, specifically, what it says it doesn't do; leave children behind.

I didn't know Bush gave you a job. Do tell.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I am not a fan of NCLB, I don't think it's a good program because it doesn't fix anything, it just provides a metric to "show" how well schools do in relation to one another. There are too many things wrong with our education system that it does not address, I think the first step would be to increase the respect and pay given to teachers, then cut back on athletics in favor of academics.

But that's not going to happen.

My job: I worked for one year for the AZ Dept of Education writing a database reporting system to take their metrics and reformat them into the result required by the NCLB database. It was pretty cool, and it gave me a good job for a year.

[droewyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, guess what reset itself in our house? My alarm clock.

Good thing I NOTICED on Sunday...

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I think my Palm Pilot surprised me that way once or twice.

It is teh suck. :-)

[joecthulhu.livejournal.com]

If nothing else, DST makes me glad I live in AZ.

Did you know that not all of AZ doesn't go on DST? The Navajo Nation recognizes it.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

It seems like I knew that, though I'm not sure why.