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Time Posted by beccistarr on March 11, 2018, 11:42 am Mr. Moderator...can we please have the correct time on the board.... it’s confusing when I see my post with a time stamp that’s an hour later than I wrote it.....here daylight savings time doesn’t start until April 1..🤪 -------------------

Re: Time Posted by Moderator on March 11, 2018, 11:32 am, in reply to "Time" Edited by board administrator March 11, 2018, 11:55 am Ahh, time for the time game again . I fixed it for the first of at least 4 times this coming year. I am not going to change the time on the Off Topic board though, just to stay in the spirit of being off topic There has to be a name for us who are against this crazy practice but I couldn't find in in my searches nor does one pop into my mind other than SFWTDC (stop ####ing with the damn clock) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-10/proof-daylight-saving-time-is-dumb-dangerous-and-costly -------------------

Re: Time Posted by Valerie on March 11, 2018, 1:48 pm, in reply to "Re: Time" It is always amusing when someone removes a foot off the top of the blanket, sews it on the bottom the blanket, and thinks they have a larger blanket! -------------------

Re: Time Posted by Neal on March 11, 2018, 4:19 pm, in reply to "Re: Time" Uh what time is it? -------------------

Re: Time Posted by Daniel H on March 11, 2018, 7:57 pm, in reply to "Re: Time" When you posted it was daytime, now its nighttime. -------------------

Re: Time Posted by susan* on March 12, 2018, 6:48 am, in reply to "Re: Time" That was funny!! -------------------

Re: Time Posted by john p on March 12, 2018, 7:35 am, in reply to "Re: Time" -------------------

Re: Time Posted by Rhonda O on March 12, 2018, 8:41 am, in reply to "Re: Time" This is hilarious but seriously what time is it? For now at least. -------------------

Re: Time Posted by Jane G on March 12, 2018, 8:57 am, in reply to "Re: Time" Chronogynist, a person who doesn't like time, or anything to do with time, such as resetting clocks for DST. (Yes, I made it up.) -------------------

Re: Time Posted by Daniel H on March 12, 2018, 5:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Time" Congratulations J, when you search that word there is only one result, yours! https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=%22Chronogynist%22&norw=1 A slogan would be "split it and forget it" i.e. change the clocks 30 minutes and never change them again. This time change thing started in WW1 and has an incredible amount of history, some countries changing to and from it several times! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time I found very little on changing other than an hour, here are two. "In 2008, the Turkish Ministry of Energy proposed that Turkey should abolish summer time while at the same time switching to GMT +2.5, originally from 2009 onwards, but when this appeared infeasible, to start in 2011.[32] The plan has not been heard of since". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Time_in_Europe I don't know why it "appeared infeasible" Probably something to do with the 30 minutes. I haven't really thought through the ramifications of the split it solution. ----- Energy savings from advancing the Indian Standard Time by half an hour" this link will download a pdf to your computer. http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_093_03_0298_0302_0.pdf This article was written in 2007 so I don't know if things have changed since then. Daylight savings time is one problem, another is time zones. In India they should have two time zones yet they only have one for the entire country. This proposal was to use a different UTC start point than the one that actually exist, a 30 minute difference, a unique way of getting the split it solution. In China they have room for 5 time zones but only have one. Is there no "lets see your on the East coast so your clock is two hours ahead of mine" calculations to do? I don't know how they do this, do they have an imaginary time zone in their head? Totally new to me. -------------------

Re: Time Posted by Jane G on March 12, 2018, 5:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Time" I said I made it up. I believe the etymology would be correct, however, for such a construction. Odd that neither of us could find a "real" word for it. I can't be the only person in history who hates time. . -------------------

Re: Time Posted by Linda Crosfield on March 14, 2018, 10:51 am, in reply to "Re: Time" This thread just put that song in my head from who-knows-where in who-knows-how-long! -------------------

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