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22 Mar 01 - 08:34 PM (#423670) Subject: clocks changing? From: alison Just wondering............ Aussie clocks change this weekend .... not even sure which way....... (I know its usually Spring forward and Fall back... but is that the same when you're upside down?)...... like I say I never remember... and they stuffed us up further by making us go to daylight saving early last year... so there would be more light for the olympics!!! but I'm wondering (basically for bumping into people in Paltalk or ICQ)..... when do your clocks change? are we all synchronised? slainte alison |
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22 Mar 01 - 08:43 PM (#423676) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Bill D we have 10 days to go..... |
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22 Mar 01 - 08:46 PM (#423679) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Joe Offer Hi, Alison - Daylight Savings Time begins April 1 in the U.S. - our clocks "spring forward" and "fall back," - but we northerners are beginning our spring, and I suppose you're heading into fall. I never seem to be able to visualize all this, so I usually end up at church at the wrong time on Sunday morning.... -Joe Offer- |
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22 Mar 01 - 08:51 PM (#423683) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: alison now I'm not sure I would trust clocks changing on the 1st April... could be some big Aprils Fools prank.... slainte alison |
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22 Mar 01 - 09:24 PM (#423697) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Bill D Little old lady on radio call-in show..... "I'm against this 'daylight savings time', it'll confuse the chickens!" |
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22 Mar 01 - 11:13 PM (#423757) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: artbrooks They don't change in Arizona...none of these liberal left-wing crypto-communist socialist concepts allowed! |
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22 Mar 01 - 11:16 PM (#423764) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: GUEST Coming up on autumn in Australia, so the clocks there are going "back" to standard time, which means that to the rest of the world, things in Australia will be happening an hour later. |
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22 Mar 01 - 11:22 PM (#423767) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: catspaw49 Ah yes.....the good old Spring forward and Fall back................Unless you travel to Mississippi, where you have to set your watch back 35 years. Damn...Where's Khandu? I hate to waste these Mississippi jabs when he's not around......................... Spaw |
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23 Mar 01 - 12:30 AM (#423812) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: catspaw49 Heads up down under in Oz and Kiwiland..........Mir doesn't care about the time, but in an hour or so have a look up and be prepared to spring forward or fall back. They say the largest chunkies will be about the size of a Volkswagen and zoomin' in at about 350 miles per hour. Spaw |
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23 Mar 01 - 12:37 AM (#423817) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Matt_R Monolithic aborigine sun dial: Ayers clock |
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23 Mar 01 - 01:41 AM (#423829) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: roopoo They change tomorrow night (24/25) here in the UK. Andrea |
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23 Mar 01 - 02:54 AM (#423845) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Terry K I'm 50 minutes early for golf, once a year. |
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23 Mar 01 - 08:28 AM (#423943) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: GUEST,micca at work " Come, gather round 'catters where ever your home and admit that its time to adjust your time zone and dont you "fall back" if its spring where your from for the clocks they are a changing" |
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23 Mar 01 - 08:33 AM (#423949) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: alison hahaha... love it micca slainte alison |
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23 Mar 01 - 08:34 AM (#423950) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: catspaw49 Well Micca, that's really awful......but go on and finish it.........I think you're really on to a winner here. Spaw |
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23 Mar 01 - 08:39 AM (#423958) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: SINSULL How many Whoo Whoo's in a time change, Spaw? |
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23 Mar 01 - 09:20 AM (#424015) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mrrzy Pretty funny, MattR! The fun thing about the clocks changing on different weekends in different countries is that you can really gain or lose hours if you travel. One year Mom went to Europe in the Spring, sprang forward, and then came back and got to spring forward AGAIN... putting her really one hour behind the rest of us. Then that same fall, I went to Europe, fell back, and then came home and fell back AGAIN... putting me one hour ahead of the rest of the family but TWO hours ahead of Mom - If we could do that often enough, the age difference between us would change! It boggles (what boggles?) the mind, to quote somebody or other, Frank somebody. Not to mention that weirdness of some states not participating, so that doing a cross-country drive can get VERY interesting in spots. You wouldn't believe what you can miss. |
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23 Mar 01 - 09:26 AM (#424021) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: SINSULL There's a town in Indiana, (Elkin?) with the time change line running through the middle. The airport is on one side of town; the commercial district on the other. I was an hour late for an appointment because of it. Stupid! People live in one zone and work in the other. Must cause havoc with alternate side of the street parking regulations. |
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23 Mar 01 - 09:39 AM (#424035) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Naemanson This seems like a good place to remind people of Mark Twain's story about his watch. Click here to read it. Also, there is a Darwin award for some Palestinian terrorists in Israel who got blown up by their own bomb because of a time change. |
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23 Mar 01 - 11:10 AM (#424126) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Armen Tanzerian Et en France et l'Europe: Vous devrez avancer votre montre d'une heure le dimanche 25 mars 2001 (à 2 heures du matin) pour être à l'heure d'été, et devrez la reculer d'une heure le dimanche 28 octobre (à 3 heures du matin) pour vous retrouver à l'heure d'hiver.
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23 Mar 01 - 11:39 AM (#424163) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Linda Kelly Merci Armen! |
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23 Mar 01 - 11:55 AM (#424184) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: mousethief Can someone translate? |
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23 Mar 01 - 12:08 PM (#424196) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: katlaughing Well, MT, here's a very literal translation from www.tranexp.com: You will owe advance your watch [d'une] hour him Sunday 25 March 2001 (at 2 hours in the morning) for be per hour [d'été], and will have to her back off [d'une] hour him Sunday 28 October (at 3 hours in the morning) for you find per hour wintry. |
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23 Mar 01 - 12:12 PM (#424202) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: mousethief Can someone translate? |
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23 Mar 01 - 12:18 PM (#424210) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Jon Freeman altavista/babelfish gives: You will have to advance your one hour old watch Sunday March 25 2001 (at 2 o'clock in the morning) to be at the summer-time, and will have to move back it one hour Sunday October 28 (at 3 o'clock in the morning) to find you per hour of winter. |
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23 Mar 01 - 12:25 PM (#424215) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Naemanson Garsh but thim furriners taawk funny! |
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23 Mar 01 - 12:28 PM (#424220) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: mousethief Wish we didn't have DST here. In the middle of the summer the sky stays light until WAY after the kids' bedtime. Makes it very hard for them to get to sleep. Alex |
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23 Mar 01 - 12:46 PM (#424240) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mrs.Duck Do you think our twins might start waking at 6.30 on Sunday and give us a lie in? |
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23 Mar 01 - 01:01 PM (#424251) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Hyperabid Appropos of nothing really... At Merton College, Oxford, when the clocks go back there is a bizarre ritual called "The festival of the counter revolution" Undergraduates gather in full sub fusc, (formal black tie dinner wear and a gown and mortarboard), and attach a candle to the top of their mortarboards and walk backwards around the astrolabe in the central quadrangle for an hour whilst attempting to consume an entire bottle of port without either spilling any or falling over innebriated. Before anybody shouts "Urban Myth" at me, I attended said college at said University and participated in said festival. We English are verrrrryyy strange! Hyper |
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23 Mar 01 - 03:53 PM (#424430) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: GUEST Literal translations are never very good; puts me in mind of the language translation computer which took "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak", and came up with "the wine's good, but the meat's rotten" A less literal translation of Armen's message; You should set your watch forward an hour on Sunday, 25th of March, at 2am, to be correct for spring time, and set it back again an hour on Sunday, 28th of October, at 3am to return to correct winter time. |
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23 Mar 01 - 06:02 PM (#424529) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mary in Kentucky If you want to know what time it is, click here. |
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24 Mar 01 - 04:52 PM (#425063) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Firecat Here in England, we turn the clocks forward at 1am. That's about 3 hours!! |
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24 Mar 01 - 04:58 PM (#425068) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mr Red je ne parlez plus Francais une petit pas. Une bijou petit pas - non? |
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24 Mar 01 - 05:08 PM (#425074) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: JeZeBeL Bonjour mes amis francais et anglais. Ici, en angleterre nous avencons notre montres une heure a deux heures du matin. MAis c'est trois heures du matin en france an temps anglais.....ben......j'ai mal au tete maintenant!! C'est tres dificile pour moi. Peut etre je doit parler l'anglais......mais la francais est plus facile....mais, je suis anglaise, je pense....M'AIDEZ!!!!!! |
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24 Mar 01 - 06:48 PM (#425116) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: mousethief Ich spreche nicht Franzoesich. Weshalb, cutten Sie es out. Danke. |
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24 Mar 01 - 07:34 PM (#425130) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Helen alison, In case you are still wondering which way to turn your clock: remember you get to sleep in an hour longer in winter and get up an hour earlier in summer. Cold wintry morning in late March, the last thing you want to do is get out of your warm bed. One extra hour's sleep. I always have to work it out this way in summer: When I finish work at 5pm (DST) it will really only be 4pm (EST) so there is an extra hour to go swimming before the sun goes down. Helen |
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24 Mar 01 - 11:51 PM (#425200) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Armen Tanzerian "You will advance your watch one hour on Sunday 25 March (at 2:00 AM) to be on summer time, and set it back one hour on Sunday 28 October (at 3:00 AM) to return to winter time."
Now that wasn't so hard, was it? (Of course, the instructions are for France and Western Europe. North America starts "summer time" a week later.)
In French, which is somewhat vocabulary poor, "devoir" means both to owe and to have to. "Devrez" is the future = "you will". "You should", which is how I translated it at first would be "devriez", conditional. But I have a feeling there may be a nuance for giving instructions, and "you should" is still a better translation. Hey.....wake up! |
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25 Mar 01 - 06:03 AM (#425234) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Penny S. I wish I'd seen this last night! Got caught, I did! Where was the seven o'clock program on R4? Why is it nine now? Oh! It's the last weekend in March and I haven't changed the clocks yet! Still, it was useful. Last night I drove a friend home, and we stopped to drop off a master sheet for photocopying, which turned into doing the photocopying, and touring the establishment, after midnight, and I was late home. Penny |
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25 Mar 01 - 06:42 AM (#425240) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Naemanson Mary In Kentucky, that site is cool but the time was wrong! |
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25 Mar 01 - 08:08 AM (#425248) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: MudGuard Why would changing the time confuse chickens? I have never seen a chicken able to read the clock. ;-)
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25 Mar 01 - 09:54 AM (#425269) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Gervase Doh! (Slaps head and does half-arsed Homer Simpson impression) I started reading this thread the day it appeared, and I still got caught out today. But isn't it a bloody pain when we have so many clocks in our lives - the video, the music machine, the microwave, the radios, the computers...? Thankfully modern Macs let you sync your machine with a network time server - saves you dialling 121/TIM and hearing that harridan telling you: "at the third stroke the time sponsored by..." There's something about that voice that makes my flesh creep! |
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25 Mar 01 - 10:11 AM (#425272) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Bill D the chickens were fine, but a certain little old lady had NO idea what was happening. (Like the guy who refused to look at the Revised Standard Edition of the Bible..and waved his King James..."If it was good enough for the 12 Apostles, it's good good enough for me!" |
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25 Mar 01 - 11:03 AM (#425280) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Armen Tanzerian I gits my time check from the U.S. Naval observatory at:
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil
It's Greenwich Mean Time, of course -- you have to subtract five hours for Eastern Standard Time, four for Eastern Daylight Time. (Anybody care to remind me where I go to learn how to imbed a link into one of these messages?) |
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25 Mar 01 - 11:21 AM (#425284) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Uncle_DaveO You can blamme this mess on Benjamin Franklin. He's the miscreant who invented daylight savings time. Dave Oesterreich |
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25 Mar 01 - 12:34 PM (#425294) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: MudGuard for putting links into postings: <a href="http://www.somewhere.org/">Click here</a> HTH MudGuard |
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25 Mar 01 - 01:30 PM (#425309) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mrs.Duck Ok answer me this one in whatever language suits! We put our clocks forward so 5.30 am became 6.30 am why then oh why did the twins wake up at 4.30? |
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25 Mar 01 - 01:49 PM (#425314) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: SINSULL Wow! Mrs. Duck. They can tell time! Prodigies, they are. Have you tried Guinness???? |
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25 Mar 01 - 05:49 PM (#425398) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Armen Tanzerian Well, let's just try it. For the correct time (GMT), Click here [What is the sound of two fingers being crossed?] |
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25 Mar 01 - 05:51 PM (#425400) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Armen Tanzerian Oh my stars and garters!! It worked! Thanks. |
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25 Mar 01 - 05:55 PM (#425406) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mary in Kentucky Naemanson, it's just a cute site that I think must use the clock on your computer. So I guess technically...you're wrong! |
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25 Mar 01 - 05:57 PM (#425407) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Mary in Kentucky *BG* |
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25 Mar 01 - 06:02 PM (#425411) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Helen Talking about my computer, Naemanson, reminds me that I don't have to remember when daylight saving starts and ends because as soon as I fire up my computer on the Sunday of the changeover it asks me to check my clock because the time has been adjusted for daylight saving. It didn't work last year, though, here in eastern Oz because of the decision to bring it forward due to the Olympics, so that the competitors would have more daylight to run in, and the tourists would have more daylight to spend money in....er... I mean, sightsee. Helen |
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26 Mar 01 - 11:34 AM (#425798) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Auxiris Personally, I am against the time change. Here in France, we start out an hour ahead of the sun during the winter months, which puts us at the same time as the folks in Berlin. In the spring, we then put the clocks ahead yet another hour, which puts us at the same time as in Moscow. I find this ridiculous, as it only saves about 50 francs PER HOUSEHOLD per year. I live in eastern France, not Moscow, for crying out loud and would like to see this stupid practice abandoned. cheers, Aux
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26 Mar 01 - 11:42 AM (#425807) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Micca Here you go Spaw as requested Times Changing by Micca Come, gather round 'catters where ever your home and admit that its time to adjust your time zone and dont you "fall back" if its spring where your from If your time to you is worth saving And you'd better stop winging or you'll sound like a drone for the clocks they are a changing Come folkies and poets whose profit is your pen And keep your eyes open cos its come round again And of the wedge it may be the end thin And theres no telling where it is aiming Oh the loser now will be later to win For the clocks, they are a changing Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call Don't alter our clocks as they hang on the wall For like Arizona maybe we should have stalled and against this mad scheme should be rageing but resistance is useless in church or in hall For the clocks, they are a changing Come mothers and fathers through out the land The time has arrived for us to take stand Your sons and your daughter are watching the hands You are ancient and rapidly aging and explain once again so that they understand that the clocks they are a changing The time, it is shown, and gone back at last And the present now will soon be the past The first one now will later be last The tick-tock is rapidly fading and The slow one now will later be fast For the clocks , they are a changing |
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26 Mar 01 - 12:25 PM (#425848) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Noreen Good one, micca! |
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26 Mar 01 - 12:29 PM (#425851) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: SINSULL Real good one Micca! You should get an Oscar for that one! |
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26 Mar 01 - 12:40 PM (#425863) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: JeZeBeL I'm all for the stop of time changes, it's bad enough going on holiday to france and having to go an hour forward....nothing against france by the way, je suis desolee, (with the accents of course, Ic an't find them on the comp though), I hate having to get up an hour earlier, is this someones sick idea of a joke?????? |
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26 Mar 01 - 03:27 PM (#426018) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: Penny S. But I can do some gardening when I get home now.... Penny |
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26 Mar 01 - 03:42 PM (#426029) Subject: RE: BS: clocks changing? From: katlaughing Great job, Micca. Brill! |