Time

[Guest]

I always thought that computers were suppose to reset them selves when
daylight savings time came around. I had to set mine maually this morning. Is
there some setting I am missing? I am at Central time in North America where
we observe daylight savings time. Please help me.

Allan

 

[John]

I always thought that computers were suppose to reset them selves when
daylight savings time came around. I had to set mine maually this morning. Is
there some setting I am missing? I am at Central time in North America where
we observe daylight savings time. Please help me.

Allan

Can't help you directly, Allan - my computer DID change the time to DST, but it
did not show the message which it used to do, saying that the computer had
adjusted the time, and please check it.

Could any of the automatic updates to Win XP have been related to the future
change in dates of time changes, and at the same time changed the fact that
there's no more message?

Who knows the mind of Bill Gates!!!

Perhaps our MVP's will have an answer.

John <><

 

[lvee]

On the Time Zone tab there is a box that asks 'automatically adjust clock
for daylight savings time'. That needs to be check in order for the
computer to automatically change the time.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

I didn't see the new clock settings message either. But if you want to see
it...

Paste the following line into Start | Run and click OK...

rundll32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL timedate.cpl,,/m

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[Joan Archer]

I didn't get that message either on the 2 XP machines here but it did show
on the WinME machine, so I assume it's one of the things XP doesn't show
<g>
Joan

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User]

That's basically it, Joan..

 

[antioch]

Has it got anything to do with that time change business in Indiana that was
posted recently?? That was set for 1 April - All Fools Day????
Rgds
Antioch

 

[Joan Archer]

Thought it might be Mike, <g> no problem change went smoothly as usual
apart from it upsets the animals internal clocks when the time changes <g>
Joan

 

[Joan Archer]

Haven't a clue our time changed on Sunday 26th March in the UK, Mothering
Sunday.
Joan

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Description of issues that are related to time zone changes in Indiana
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914837

Updating your time zone setting
Indiana moves to Daylight Saving Time April 2, 2006
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone.mspx

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[Joan Archer]

Very interesting but my opinion is, I wish they would just leave the times
alone. I thought it originally started to help the farmers during World
War 2 so why they need to carry it on now I don't know <g>
Joan

 

[Wesley Vogel]

WWI
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html

I think Daylight Saving Time is dumb. But some claim that it saves energy.

As one MVP explained how his Father explained it: It's like cutting a strip
off one end of a rug and sewing it onto the other end to make it longer. Or
something like that. ;-)

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

WWI
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html

I think Daylight Saving Time is dumb. But some claim that it saves
energy.

A quote from that page states "A poll done by the U.S. Department of
Transportation indicated that Americans liked Daylight Saving Time because
"there is more light in the evenings / can do more in the evenings."

If we *really* believed that it's a good thing to do for that reason, we
would have one hour of DST in the summer, and *two* hours in the winter. We
have shorter days in the winter, and that's when we need more daily savings
time.

 

[Martmcd]

as far as the UK is concerned (the first to mess around with time) you are
correct, the problem now is that 'people' like BST its Greenwich MeanTime
that would be abolished.
THE time

 

[Wesley Vogel]

A quote from that page states "A poll done by the U.S. Department of

Transportation indicated that Americans liked Daylight Saving Time because
"there is more light in the evenings / can do more in the evenings."

I thought that when I was a school kid, but not anymore, Ken. Us old guys
go to bed early, doncha know.

If we *really* believed that it's a good thing to do for that reason, we
would have one hour of DST in the summer, and *two* hours in the winter.
We have shorter days in the winter, and that's when we need more daily
savings time.

I already have to go to work in the dark in the winter. No matter what they
do, I'll probably still be in the dark. ;-)

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

I thought that when I was a school kid, but not anymore, Ken. Us old
guys go to bed early, doncha know.


I already have to go to work in the dark in the winter.

I'm retired now, but when I worked, I went to work in the dark and left
work in the dark for a good part of the winter. For several years, I worked
in an office without a window, and I drove to work in the dark, parked in
the garage in the building, walked to my windowless office, then left and
drove home again in the dark. It was a neighborhood in which it wasn't safe
to walk in the streets, so I didn't even go out for lunch, but had it
brought in. For much of the winter I saw daylight only on weekends.

You can't fix it on both ends, but I'd at least like to have some winter
daylight in the evenings.

No matter
what they do, I'll probably still be in the dark. ;-)

LOL! Nah, I don't believe that for a minute.

 

[Chuck Davis]

Joan, this 'animal' is always upset with the change. Although at my age,
animal only mean "mammal."

To comment on your statement: "...originally started to help the farmers
during World War 2..." I grew up on a farm in central Illinois. Farmers in
that region (and to this day) refused to change the clocks. They stayed on
"God's Time." ???

 

[Joan Archer]

<lol> You and me both Chuck, and your other comments about the farmers I
don't blame them, it must get very confusing for the animals especially
cows and the times for milking <g>
Joan

 

[Joan Archer]

Like you Ken I'm retired now so doesn't make any difference to me but my
last job before retirement meant walking down to work (which was about 10
minutes walk away from home) at just after 5.30 in the morning and it was
not nice especially if it was cold and raining or snowing and in the dark
<g>
Joan

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Maybe *they* could figure out how to do away with Winter. Nah...

Spring and Fall are my favorite seasons anyway. Speaking of Spring, I saw
some flowers that were blooming already early last week. I don't know what
kind of flowers they were but they were yellow and not tulips.

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