back to gmt
I am one person living in a one bedroomed flat, yet I still managed to find eleven different clocks to set back to GMT this morning. Eleven! The only thing I didn’t have to change was my computer. I synchronise it automatically with an NTP (network time protocol) server on the internet, so it’s always at the right time. I can recommend using europe.pool.ntp.org, a pooled group of public NTP servers maintained by the NTP Public Services Project.
This whole notion of “daylight savings time” bugs me. To take full advantage of those long summer evenings, we like our working hours to be earlier in the summer. However, because we’re so wedded to the idea of working from 9 to 5, we simply cannot bring ourselves to work from 8 ’till 4 instead. So we change all the clocks in the country to trick ourselves into thinking we’re still getting up at the same time. Wierd.
Neil T. says:
Personally I think the idea behind daylight savings time is very outdated. We should stay with GMT all year round - would save a lot of effort and confusion.
My Mac, laptop and PDA all updated themselves but I had to update my watch (twice, because it’s got separate analogue and digital bits), my mobile phone and my two alarm clocks.
Neil T. spoke at 17:59 UTC on October 31st, 2005 link
Stig Carlsson says:
Didn’t Great Britain at one time have something called Double DST; I remember reading about it in one of James Herriot’s stories? The yorkshire farmers Hated it and called it Idiot Time! The DST, they called Government Time. The Cows couldn’t reset their internal clocks after it anyway; so everybody had to go up two hours earlier after the clock to feed and milk them. I, personally, Like it because it gives me one more hour of light after i close up my shop to do some fishing or carpentry(Or, read books and drink beer in the light from the setting sun).
Stig Carlsson spoke at 19:57 UTC on November 28th, 2005 link