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

[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.