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Author Topic: Time change reminder Ron Keillor Expert Film Handler Posts: 166 From: Vancouver, B.C. Canada Registered: Jul 2003 posted 10-25-2003 03:14 PM                     This is the weekend (where applicable) to set clocks back one hour for the change from Daylight Savings to Standard Time. Remember to change timers too - lights and fans.  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-25-2003 06:35 PM                        Yup. Starting tomorrow, we'll have an hour less of sunlight each day, which will lead to the cooling off that comes with winter. (I hope nobody actually believes that.)  |  IP: Logged Travis Hubrig Expert Film Handler Posts: 175 From: Minot ND, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 10-25-2003 06:57 PM                     Do I move the big hand or the little hand?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-25-2003 08:20 PM                     No Travis, You move the seconds sweep hand backwards 60 times . Mark  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-25-2003 08:25 PM                     Spring AHEAD Fall BACK  |  IP: Logged Matthew Peters Expert Film Handler Posts: 179 From: Glen Waverley, Melbourne, Australia Registered: Nov 2002 posted 10-25-2003 09:45 PM                     We all moved froward one hour on this side of the globe, that’s one less hour of sleep for us and one extra for you.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-25-2003 10:03 PM                     Both my computers are time-synced to the National Naval Observatory. -- tock.usno.navy.mil Two of my wall clocks are the "atomic" version that sync to station WWV in Fort Collins, CO. My cellular phone automatically syncs itself to the phone company's signal. I don't wear a watch because it's not a good idea when working with electricity and machines. The only clocks I have to worry about is my alarm clock and the one in the kitchen. Some day I will have them replaced with atomic clocks too. It's not just beacuse I'm lazy. I like it because all of the clocks in my house will be syncronized to the national time signal and to each other... all within a fraction of a second!  |  IP: Logged Greg Anderson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 766 From: Ogden Valley, Utah Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-25-2003 11:27 PM                        This is one of my favorite weekends because I, too, have a collection of "atomic" clocks which will be resetting themselves tonight while I sleep. In fact, I have more than 50 of them. (I started collecting them in 1995.) I'd say that everybody should consider getting at least one "atomic" clock, seeing as how they're relatively cheap now. You can get a really nice, large, analog, radio-controlled clock for only $15 at Sam's Club, for example. And you know, Randy, you can buy a radio-controlled movement for your kitchen clock (if it's analog) and convert it to an "atomic" clock if you want to. Search www.klockit.com if you're interested in a little do-it-yourself project. Of course, some people are content to just get the "correct" time from their cell phones. Or you could always go to the National Institutes of Standards and Technology Time Web Page too. (And, thus, I will end this shameless plug for my own hobby and for the Federal government's atomic timekeeping operations.)  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-25-2003 11:38 PM                     The one above my fireplace mantel is analog. It's fun to stay up and watch it change!  |  IP: Logged Greg Anderson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 766 From: Ogden Valley, Utah Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-26-2003 12:11 AM                        I have a couple of Junghans "Mega Clocks." The hour hand is independent of the other two hands. When the clocks change for Daylight Saving Time (or when you change the time zone) the hour hand zips around while the minute and second hands remain normal. Kinda slick.  |  IP: Logged Luciano Brigite Master Film Handler Posts: 277 From: Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-26-2003 12:43 AM                     Heh.. you all set your clocks back one hour..while I set mine one hour ahead.. the only thing is that it was done last weekend for me .  |  IP: Logged Rick Long Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 759 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-26-2003 01:47 AM                     So far as I know, the Candian province of Saskatchewan is the only place in which they stay on the same time all year.  |  IP: Logged Kevin Baglow Expert Film Handler Posts: 135 From: Yeppoon Qld, Australia Registered: Dec 2000 posted 10-26-2003 01:08 AM                        Queensland Australia (the Sunshine State) gave Daylight savings the flick about ten years ago, we all ready get plenty of sunshine here!!!  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 10-26-2003 01:09 AM                     Why exactly do we still do this? Isn't it suppsoed to help out the farmers? If so, what does it help?  |  IP: Logged Kevin Baglow Expert Film Handler Posts: 135 From: Yeppoon Qld, Australia Registered: Dec 2000 posted 10-26-2003 02:27 AM                        Chris, I think the citys like it, because they can drive home after work in daylight. No good for outdoor theatres though. I hated it,-- I ran a drive- in when it was happening here.  |  IP: Logged

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