Re: OT Daylght Saving Time

Thermos wrote:
kenny1111 wrote:
Thermos wrote:
On Mar 14, 10:25 am, theBZA <dewey3kNOS...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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David Cronk wrote:
Thermos wrote:
HPLeft wrote:
"Aldo Cella" <chicom...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Do you think the change is a good idea? I have relatives in Ohio
and the
kids are going to have to use a flashlight to find the bus
stop. I loved it when I went to Cleveland and it was daylight at
9 30pm.
Microsoft didn't release an upgrade patch fixing the time
settings for Windows 2000. I had to manually reset the PC clock
(and discard the automatic DST setting) - which will require me
to set it back once the old
date for DST arrives in a couple of weeks. So, no. I don't
think it was a
good idea. I also saw a segment on the Newshour the other day
where one of
the guests claimed that there is no evidence that DST has ever
led to energy
savings. It has, however, led to gains by supermarkets,
department stores,
etc - since the extra hour of daylight is one extra hour that
people are thought more likely to shop.
Their XP patch didn't work for me, either, but that's what I
expect from Microsoft. Personally, the daylight at night means
more to me than the morning, since its usually dark when I go to
work anyway, but I'm not sure it accomplishes what people say it
does.
A minor inconvenience about a computer should have no bearing on
judging if this is a good idea.
I agree. I didn't mean to imply otherwise, if you took it that way.
I was more remarking on MS's continuing inability to reliably patch
its own software.
Using info like energy saving is the right criteria, IMO. Also,
people spending more money is not necessarily a bad thing.
I don't know either way whether DST accomplishes what people claim
it does. That's all I was saying.
This thread is silly. I have a Win2k laptop and a WinXP desktop. MS
released DST updates for both of them months ago. Both reset their
clocks on time as they should have. Anyone who has had problems
probably screwed their computer up themselves.
O.k. I have 2 PCs both running Windows Update automatically and
neither updated properly, even after I ran the Microsfoft instructions
provided by my company's IS department. Sure thing. I screwed it up.
Check for malware. My sister hasn't run Windows update on her computer
in 3 years, she didn't have an active virusscanner and she's never heard
of spy-bot. Her computer did not apply the DST update correctly either
(WinXP Home). However, after 3 hours of downloading updates and
eliminating bot's, trojans and PUPs, we ran windows update again and it
updated A-OK.
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I appreciate the suggestion. I'll double check, but I do have updated
protection and run HijackThis periodically to confirm. I'm not sure
why it didn't work - it wasn't that big a deal to correct manually,
though. By and large, I like Microsoft, too.

AHHHHHHH!! EVIL!!!!!!

I knew you wouldn't care for that. The truth is, like most Americans, I am too old or lazy to seriously consider an alternative. Its the essence of the Microsoft business plan.


You can be better than most Americans! Download the Ubuntu livecd. Stick it in. Play around. Click install. It will partition your drive, set up a bootloader, and you'll have a dual boot. Then when you realize how great it is, you can remove Windows :-)
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