Oh, fiddlesticks!

General Woundwort · #1 October 26th, 2003, 11:09 AM

I'm sitting here, my alarm clock reads 6:15 - and my computer clock reads 5:15.

Guess what dummy forgot to turn his clock back for that extra hours' sleep?

Arkcon · #2 October 27th, 2003, 01:37 AM

That's nothing. Once when I was a kid, I set the clocks back one hour when you were supposed to go forward. When the alarms for church went off, that was the beginning of a rotten Sunday for the whole family.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 October 27th, 2003, 11:14 PM

i just flopped on the couch on sunday.

oleg · #4 October 27th, 2003, 11:21 PM

There is something odd here. UK changed time to winter. Why this board (zulu time) has not

gregebowman · #5 October 29th, 2003, 09:53 PM

I wish I could have turned my two year old's clock back by an hour. He got up at the normal time for him, which was around 7:30, but this time, the clock was reading 6:30. Aargh! so much for that extra hour's sleep.

rdouglass · #6 October 29th, 2003, 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by oleg:
There is something odd here. UK changed time to winter. Why this board (zulu time) has not

Isn't Zulu time by it's definition not to change? IIRC all other time zones based their delta off "Zulu"....

geoschmo · #7 October 29th, 2003, 10:53 PM

That's right, GMT or Zulu time does not change, it's the same all over the planet. With half the world in night at any particular time, and the southern hemisphere heading into summer, changing GMT wouldn't save any daylight anyway.

henk brouwer · #8 October 30th, 2003, 09:59 AM

Daylight saving time has it's advantages:
My birthday was one hour longer this year

narf poit chez BOOM · #9 October 30th, 2003, 10:00 AM

do fiddle's have sticks?

Erax · #10 October 30th, 2003, 12:53 PM

Our clocks got turned one hour forward, so we lost an hour on Saturday night.

(Saturday the 18th). Now we are 2 hours behind the UK and 3 ahead of the US East Coast.