New daylight savings - March 11. Any worries?

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Forthcoming changes to Daylight Saving Time will have significant implications for organizations worldwide, but few business organizations are prepared to address their potential information technology impacts, according to a new report from Gartner, Inc.

Gartner, a technology advisor to client organizations, has found that few clients have a formal risk assessment and remediation program in place to address the potential impacts of the change, which could include disruptions at both the IT infrastructure and application levels.

Is the new March 11 Daylight Savings time going to cause problems?

Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

what is this new daylight savings you speak of?

Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

It's like y2K all over again!!! But not.

Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

Scarily, I wrote that before clicking on the link.

I hate springing forward because I lose an hour of sleep that weekend, but otherwise I do not foresee difficulties I wouldn't have run into a month later (i.e. change in kids' sleep schedules, which is a pain but does work itself out).

Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.energy.gov/about/EPAct.htm

Daylight savings has been moved back from April to March, starting this year. xxpost.

Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

I'm more bummed about Halloween getting an extra hour of daylight.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

i read in the washington post this morning that the candy lobby (WTF?) has been lobbying for years for this for Halloween so it will be brighter

Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

I LOVE IT

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

This is such bullshit. Fuck sunlight and winter haterz.

Actually, my work sent out an email a few days ago advising that all of our meetings might appear an hour off in our calendars from the 11th. This just seems like a fantastic reason to miss meetings.

sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...
sun shining at 7pm on March 12 will be weird, though.

Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

it almost is anyway. stupid summer is already here.

sunny successor, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

80 something is dallas today, btw.

wisconsin, please offer me a job.

sunny successor, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

we were 81 yesterday and expected the same today. I don't mind that temp in general but worry about it being here already and not even march.

we're having a mtg today to discuss the impact of the new DST. joy.

Ms Misery, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

i wish we were doing this too (uk)

Ste, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

It's like y2K all over again!!! But not.

hah! I Was about to type the same thing!

nathalie, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

now i'm thinking too soon, too cold

Dr Morbius, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:16 (seventeen years ago)

Sweet Jesus, it's this weekend?

jaymc, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:21 (seventeen years ago)

surprise!

Dr Morbius, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

Guy on the radio this morning was suggesting keeping daylight saving going thru the winter... and then adding an extra extra hour on in the summer! Double daylight saving! What is this fascination with shifting the hours of darkness back and forth. Also this is in the UK so that would mean no more GMT?!

ledge, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:05 (seventeen years ago)

and then adding an extra extra hour on in the summer! Double daylight saving!

What? It's not like cell phone minutes, you know. Daylight doesn't roll over.

kenan, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

Andy Rooney had an old old piece about the opposite. Instead of Daylight Saving, there should be Bright And Early Morning time i.e. go back ANOTHER hour instead jumping ahead one.

oh Andy Rooney.

Mackro Mackro, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

i don't know which i hate more: losing an hour of sleep this weekend or andy rooney

mookieproof, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

i'll just be glad when i get back to the loop and it's not dark out.

chicago kevin, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:40 (seventeen years ago)

waht? it's on March 30th over here :-/

StanM, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

oh you crazy belgians

mookieproof, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:42 (seventeen years ago)

yes, crazy... like a waffle

Aimless, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

Double daylight dude was "yes it means extra dark extra long mornings but more daylight in the evening saves lives because people driving home are more dangerous than people driving to work and i have the figures to prove it".

ledge, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:55 (seventeen years ago)

Louisville's gonna hate this.

Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:57 (seventeen years ago)

coping?

Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

"yes it means extra dark extra long mornings but more daylight in the evening saves lives because people driving home are more dangerous than people driving to work and i have the figures to prove it".

Tell that the guy who got plowed over by a car a block away from me this morning.

Mackro Mackro, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

But these are Seattle drivers, so time of day isn't really a factor.

Mackro Mackro, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

surely extra daylight would save on energy guzzling light bulbs?

Ste, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:31 (seventeen years ago)

what about huge mirrors in space to reflect the sunlight onto the dark side?

Ste, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:32 (seventeen years ago)

What about the extra hour of maximum air-conditioning BestBuy has to crank out, what with those huge windows at the front of the store.

We use light bulbs on dark mornings, so turning them on later doesn't help.

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)

I enjoyed not having to deal daylight savings time when I lived in Arizona. I live in the Bay Area now, and the weather is nice right now, so it's almost like early summer. Not sure if I'm ready for summer yet.

rockapads, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:50 (seventeen years ago)

we're ready in cold NYC.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

Daylight Savings wastes energy

Michael White, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:57 (seventeen years ago)

can a mod change the date in the title? it scared the shit out of me for a second

ken c, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

waht? it's on March 30th over here :-/

-- StanM, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:41 (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

The US extended its daylight saving last year:

In 2007, daylight saving time (DST) was extended in the United States. DST started on the second Sunday of March (March 11, 2007), which is usually three weeks earlier than in the past, and it ended on the first Sunday of November (November 4, 2007), usually one week later than in years past (more details on the new DST start and end times can be found here). This resulted in a new DST period that was four weeks longer than in previous years; however, in some years, such as in 2008, the extension will be four weeks in the spring if there are five Sundays in March (with the 2008 DST beginning on March 9, rather than on April 6 under the previous law), thus, five weeks in total.[24]

As a result, they are now out of sync with the rest of the world for three weeks in March. E.g. NYC is currently four hours behind London, not five.

caek, Monday, 10 March 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

actually it's different in differnt countries innit

ken c, Monday, 10 March 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

xpost

ken c, Monday, 10 March 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

xpost, yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y2K7

caek, Monday, 10 March 2008 17:02 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

In Terre Haute, apparently they're going to jump ahead two hours…

http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/9579/beforethi.jpg http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/8295/afterthi.jpg

Pleasant Plains, Friday, 11 March 2011 21:36 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

Ft. Walton Beach, Fla.
SUNRISE: 6:05 am
SUNSET: 7:40 pm

Williston, N.D.
SUNRISE: 6:31 am
SUNSET: 9:30 PM

Both in the same time zone. This time of the year is always so weird.

≝ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:36 (fourteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

"Your brain has an internal clock. It helps keep time each day, making sure the right things are happening at the right moments inside our bodies, such as cardiac functions, metabolic processes, hormone fluctuations and sleep.

But for most of us, that internal clock runs slightly longer than 24 hours.

Luckily, the sun steps in to help us by sending signals to specialized receptors in our eyes."

BY AARON STECKELBERG AND LINDSEY BEVERTHE WASHINGTON POST

| (Latham Green), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:46 (two years ago)

meanwhile ....
"Last March, the Senate passed a bill that would make daylight saving time a year-round standard and end the “fall back” and “spring forward” clock changes that make Americans even groggier and crabbier than we usually are."

BY TOM PURCELL, GUEST COLUMN

| (Latham Green), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:49 (two years ago)

clocks wounded the world

ciderpress, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:49 (two years ago)

without clocks we would not know what time is

| (Latham Green), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:52 (two years ago)

why is this man so magenta!?!!

https://www.eunicetoday.com/columns/hey-congress-stop-fiddling-our-clocks

| (Latham Green), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:52 (two years ago)

he's been looking at clocks too much

ciderpress, Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:04 (two years ago)

I cannot wait for Sunday morning. I can finally see my book when walking.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:17 (two years ago)

It seems odd when they worry about our eyes not getting proper photon bombardment - when everyone is bathed daily in the glow of screens and artificial lights

| (Latham Green), Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:39 (two years ago)

this autumn time change was a big bummer when I was still working in the office everyday - getting off work, walking on the streets, getting on a bus and it's already dark. Very disheartening

The last couple years at my kitchen table, it hasn't been so bad

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:00 (two years ago)

Otm

(We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:04 (two years ago)


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