I wonder...
Apr. 2nd, 2007 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpMy BlackBerry, which doesn't know enough to update its internal clock from the network it's connected to (like my previous Samsung), apparently still has enough smarts to update itself for Daylight Savings Time, even though it's the wrong Daylight Savings Time.
Then again, it's probably the fault of the software industry at large, for failing to realize that nothing is immune from becoming a vehicle for political grandstanding and buffoonery.
Oh, and apropos of Daylight Savings Time, on the Monday after DST kicked in a couple of weeks ago, my best client's "so-many-days without an interpreter arriving late for an assignment" campaign took a hard one to the kidneys after running the string out to something like 250 days. An interpreter, apparently, failed to make the time change, and was late. (Granted, there are probably enough screwups of this kind whenever DST kicks in, but I would expect they'd be rarer, as most of our gadgets are programmed to make the change automagically.)
Cheers...
UPDATE, 4/3/07, via ZDNet:
Personally, I think Rep. Fred Upton (R-Michigan) and Rep. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) ought to publicly apologize to the American people and admit they were fishing for votes.
Whereupon I shall stop harping on this particular idiocy.
Then again, it's probably the fault of the software industry at large, for failing to realize that nothing is immune from becoming a vehicle for political grandstanding and buffoonery.
Oh, and apropos of Daylight Savings Time, on the Monday after DST kicked in a couple of weeks ago, my best client's "so-many-days without an interpreter arriving late for an assignment" campaign took a hard one to the kidneys after running the string out to something like 250 days. An interpreter, apparently, failed to make the time change, and was late. (Granted, there are probably enough screwups of this kind whenever DST kicks in, but I would expect they'd be rarer, as most of our gadgets are programmed to make the change automagically.)
Cheers...
UPDATE, 4/3/07, via ZDNet:
The move to turn the clocks forward by an hour on March 11 rather than the usual early April date was mandated by the U.S. government as an energy-saving effort.Imagine that! I can only imagine the kind of detailed, thorough, and rigorous scientific analysis that must've been done to justify this turkey! (Gee, maybe we ought to put these people in charge of the climate!?)
But other than forcing millions of drowsy American workers and schoolchildren into the dark, wintry weather three weeks early, the move appears to have had little impact on power usage.
[...]
That may come as no surprise to the Energy Department, which last year predicted only modest energy savings because the benefits of the later daylight hour would be offset.
For example, households may draw less electricity for lights at night, but will use more power in the early in the day as they wake to darker and chillier mornings.
Personally, I think Rep. Fred Upton (R-Michigan) and Rep. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) ought to publicly apologize to the American people and admit they were fishing for votes.
Whereupon I shall stop harping on this particular idiocy.
