Guest echtrae Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 This is just a friendly reminder that Daylight Saving Time goes into effect tonight in the US. So remember to crank you clocks ahead an hour and sometime after that, swing by here and enable the DST setting in your profile. Uncertain how to do that? Do the following. Click on the "My Controls" at the top right. Click on "Board Settings" under the "Options" header on the left. Right underneath the base time zone drop-down box, is a check box titled "Is daylight savings time in effect?" Click this check box. Now click the "Change my Account Options" button. Now you're all done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZombieDuke Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 It also goes into effect in Canada *grumbles* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy_lovechild Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 Huh...wow, how do I forget this stuff.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squallfan Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 I remembered, but I fail to see why we still do this here in America. I honesty think it's pointless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZombieDuke Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 I remembered, but I fail to see why we still do this here in America. I honesty think it's pointless. You think it's pointless? HAH! Try being here in Canada and we don't have any other reason to switch to DST except for trading with the states. I'm bitter. And sleepy. I lost an hour of sleep godamn it! I suggest we all hold a candle-light vigil to remember the lost hours of sleep that are now forever gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyet Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 Don't despair - it's not gone forever, just on vacation for a few months. It'll come back this fall even better than before. Until then just think of your fond memories of that hour of sleep; maybe gaze lovingly at that picture of you and the hour you took in that photobooth and think of the happy nights. ...It made sense to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZombieDuke Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 Don't despair - it's not gone forever, just on vacation for a few months. It'll come back this fall even better than before. Until then just think of your fond memories of that hour of sleep; maybe gaze lovingly at that picture of you and the hour you took in that photobooth and think of the happy nights. ...It made sense to me. *falls of of chair laughing* Okay, now I don't feel so bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzledfirestar Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 *sigh* Makes me wish I lived in Saskatuwan. For those who don't know, they don't do DST in Saskatuwan. There are many jokes as to why, most of them having to do with cows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alien Pirate Pixagi Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 ...I so love having my own work schedule... I slept RIGHT THROUGH IT! ROX~! -ducks and hides in fear of throw objects- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZombieDuke Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 ...I so love having my own work schedule... I slept RIGHT THROUGH IT! ROX~!-ducks and hides in fear of throw objects- *throws objects* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyMcClair Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 Well now, I guess there is a reason to be thankful for England after all. At least this year y'all go first. It has been us first since I got here in 2004. We have a few more weeks yet before we lose the hour. PS - to those in the states who don't like DST, Move to New Mexico. They don't do DST. They just change time zones so their time remains the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzledfirestar Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 It's actually the first year that we're going first, Amy. I don't know why they changed it, but oh well. It's over, and done for this year... thank goodness! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyMcClair Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 It's actually the first year that we're going first, Amy. I don't know why they changed it, but oh well. It's over, and done for this year... thank goodness! Not for me, it's not! I have to wait until the 25th before I can change my clocks. Last year we were some of the first to change. This year we seem to be playing catch-up to everyone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest echtrae Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 I suspect that may be the reason for the change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightScribe Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 I heard the reason they changed it had something to do with energy conservation. Whatever. It's totally f*cked me up; I'm oversleeping every morning, it'll take me a month to adjust. Seriously. Bastards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsliver Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 Energy conservation is the entire premise of DST. Basically by fucking over the entire agriculture industry, energy costs can be cut back. Great system, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alien Pirate Pixagi Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 Energy conservation is the entire premise of DST. Basically by fucking over the entire agriculture industry, energy costs can be cut back. Great system, isn't it? ...O_o really? How does that work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest echtrae Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 Which part Pix? The fucking over the agriculture industry, or the energy costs savings? The ag industry gets fucked over because the animals are unable to adjust to the changing times of man and therefore still expect to get fed at the same times. The savings supposedly is due to the fact that the little worker bees (or the common man) use less electricity in during their short evening period by pretending the evening is longer. IIRC, the energy savings concept was promoted during WWII. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alien Pirate Pixagi Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 Which part Pix? The fucking over the agriculture industry, or the energy costs savings?The ag industry gets fucked over because the animals are unable to adjust to the changing times of man and therefore still expect to get fed at the same times. The savings supposedly is due to the fact that the little worker bees (or the common man) use less electricity in during their short evening period by pretending the evening is longer. IIRC, the energy savings concept was promoted during WWII. Isn't there also that thing where they don't want people to travel to work in the dark? Given, this means they go HOME in the dark anyway/instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest echtrae Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 Actually Pix, with the spring ahead thing, the trip to work is actually earlier and therefore darker than if we hadn't changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonhart29 Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 *Sigh* I travel into work at 6:30 in the am every morning and just as I was getting a little sunshine to light my way we have to spring forward - now I'm back in total darkness. I tell you I'm thinking of moving somewhere that I don't have to worry about it. I'm a nut about being on time as it is - just imagine what my poor internal clock is going through. "What?! Now? You've got to be kidding kid. Again? Didn't we do this last year? Don't you remember what I did to your internal plumbing? That's it! I'm commiting you - you're insane." Now I have to deal with the idiots that STILL haven't changed their clocks and my internal workings going haywire... I really dislike Bush for this one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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