franc11s

OK, we all know UK clocks went back this weekend so we are on differences for a week until the USA goes back.

But given the y2k debacle in the IT industry, and the fact I'm in the industry, it pxsses me off, we can't fix the problem with technology and BST..

My car reset itself back an hour this weekend. Apparently, I have to live with it for a week (as I did in March/April) but that's not the point. The car has GPS and the exact time and location BUT no... that's too friggen difficult.

Also, my Brinx alarm system, which is connected to a telephone line is back an hour to. Again, no big deal but when we talk about sending people to the moon or mars, and yet can't get a simple device to know what the friggen time is, you have to wonder

Reminds me know of the spacecraft that crashed.. (on mars?).. becuase the programmed it in Europe for Kilometers per hour whereas the US flew it as Miles per hour....

sigh.... I'm getting me manual tin openner to open my tin of heinz's..

YankeeDaz

LOL. That'll be the Mars Climate Orbiter. Different teams where using different measurements for their systems. Systems critical to placing the probe in orbit. One team used British imperial measurements, ie inches,feet and another used metric/european measurements, ie millimetres and centimentres etc.

The UK is severly messed up. We're constantly dictated to by Europe even to the point of small market stalls not being able to sell things via pound weight any more. A huge argument started when market traders were told to sell in grams and kilograms or face a fine!

The US has had it easy for quite a while, but now with the likes of more european imports your once untouchable imperial measurements are now being polluted with the european metrics.

BST is another one of those things where people cant agree, but when all time starts from GMT/UTC, ie Greenwich in London, England I guess you have little say!

britex01

Damn, that reminds me... I forgot to change the time on the car clock!

I hate clocks back in the UK! Rotten system! Long live BST! ...

Lothianlad

NO way! If we stuck to BST all the year round in the UK, it would not get light here in Edinburgh until about 09:30 am in December/January. I'd rather come home from work in the dark than go to work in the dark each morning...it would be like getting up in the middle of the night.

britex01

Oh sorry, Scotty... That was mean of me...

Poppy girl

My T.Mobile Blackberry decided to go back an hour weird

Driver_Once_More

thanks for the reminder, must check mine

rincewind

Maybe because you don't have the patch installed for this years time change madness.

kingfisher241049

I think they are talking about keeping the same time all year round here in Florida. I hope they decide eventually to do away with Daylight saving time, I hate the ritual of going around the house putting clocks back then a few months later putting them forward again. Seems a waste of time to me. In the UK their may be a reason for it, but not here.

Poppy girl

Patch!!

lj2

I was talking to my US resident USC gf on the phone on Sat night/Sun Morning when the clock went back - I told her I'd be goign to sleep at 3 when it was 2.50, I looked up and it was 2.10... I was confused til I remembered about the clocks going back!

She told me I was a silly sausage for forgetting and then put hers back because of course she never forgot.....

Her boss called her the next morning 10 minutes after her start time and she was still in bed thinking she had 50 minutes before work! Now who is the sausage

rincewind

Our company installed a patch for all our Blackberry users to deal with the time change.

Poppy girl

Interesting but still found it strange that it changed as it was set for pacific time zone.

franc11s

Yes but the dumb-asses in IT somewhere programmed the device so that the last Sunday in October would see the time set back, thinking everyone on PCT would do the same. The change to the first SUnday in November passed in congress didn't make it to the hard-coded-programmed-device. Makes me laugh, because it's conencted to a network and shouldn't need a "patch" if it was programmed correctly (BTW - I'm in IT - LOL)

rincewind

Yes, but the time change dates were altered for this year. If you haven't updated your device, it would change as it normally would (one week earlier).

This is the patch you should have installed at the beginning of the year:

Blackberry Daylight Saving Time 2007