UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums General Off Topic When do the clocks go back in the USA?

In particular Florida (if they are any different to the rest of the USA)

Thanks.

I didn't think they did.
I thought it was a uniquely British thing (ww1/farmers etc).

Well how about that - you live & learn eh?

I've always noticed that our UK sites hosted on US servers never display the correct time when GMT/BST starts/ends and the US is always a few days behind.

http://www.worldtimezone.com/daylight.html

Well, it can be numerous things, the likely culprit is that they could set the time change in the server to be DST instead of just offsetting it in PHP (or ASP, or Perl, whatever they've coded the app in) like it should be done (IMO)...

Most countries change their clocks including Australia

Many thanks Gizmo - appreciated

For the U.S. and its territories, Daylight Saving Time is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and Arizona.

Daylight Saving Time in Liverpool is an Excuse to be lazy lol

SD, I believe the only people in AZ that don't observe it are the American Indians; but that was little research i did a year ago when trying to explain to my mom about timezone's 9which flew well over her head)

yes, the reason the Indians don't is because their tribal land extends to more than just AZ and they decided it best to keep it all the same for the entire tribal land 'time zone'

Myself, I find no point in DST, as it was only instituted to "save fuel" in WWI, farmers don't even like it in our area lol

Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Center
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst


Time stamp changes with daylight savings
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/129574


How to address the daylight saving time changes in 2007 by using the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931667

Part of Indiana observes daylight savings and part does not.

Same for Texas, we're in 2 timezones

Until April 2005, when Indiana passed a law agreeing to observe daylight saving time, the Hoosier state had its own unique and complex time system.

http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html

The only exception in Arizona is the Navajo Nation, in northeastern Arizona, which does observe Daylight Saving Time.


As for Texas you guys use it but you're so big that you use 2 of them.

"Eastern (most of) Texas is in the Central Time Zone
A small portion of western Texas is in the Mountain Time Zone"

Reference:
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/usc.html

This site actually has a lot of information about Daylight Saving Time
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html

In any case, DST gives us 2 parties at the IT department each year at work

I work at a broadcast station, 4 radio stations and 2 television channels, and everything automated is automated because of that little feature in the computer called the clock

We used to have a dance classics night party for wintertime (which is the worst with 25 hours in a day) to avoid having to fix those days in the software. But that tradition stopped a few years ago.

So do you start work in one and finish in the other

No I think he means 1952 and 1984 and goes to work in a Delorean.

Nah, he's not a Lorry driver.

red lorry or yellow lorry?

Some lorry drivers rarely start and finish work in the same time zone.

All I get is

TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter url must be non-null.
at flash.net::URLStream/load()
at flash.net::URLLoader/load()
at flash.net::URLLoader$iinit()
at com.groupee.slideshow::Slideshow$iinit()

And nothing displays

Link is working fine for me today. Maybe try another browser or a computer restart?

What version of flash have you installed, Ian? Is it up to date?

Goodness knows LOL - I will check - I think it is pretty much up to date

Okay - now I'm confused LOL

The clocks here went back 24 hours this morning - yet the clocks in the USA do not change until the 4th.

However my timeshift here is still showing -7 hours and the time of my posts is correct and not an hour out.

Am I confused, mad or just plain wrong LOL

yes

What 'yes' with no 15 char padding????

(...thought only I was doing that )

Actually, I was totally unaware about the time change - as usual!

I showed up at the sportcentre an hour early!

(Normally my mom calls me to remind me - as she knows I have a memory like a sieve, but she's in hospital )

yes to what? LOL


LOL - as long as you are not an hour late next spring...

Our timechange generally updates at like 2am or something? :shrug:, but this year they changed the day we changed as well (usually we'd change saturday, but nooo, they had to change the date)

We had our change this weekend, I enjoyed the extra hour, I spend it in a bar

I spent most of last night in between Embers Dance Club (missed the drag show though darnit, paid the $5 cover at 2am and was there for not more than half an hour (as they where just announcing last call when we where leaving; but they had Transformers on a projector screen!)) and The Sauce Box (a simple bar down several blocks)... Then retired to Dennies after taking in a street fight over by The Roxy lol...

We where going to eat at a resturant by there (as The Roxy was packed and was a long wait to get food) but the street fight swamped the area with lookie loo's and cop's... Though we did run into some old friends and stood around talking for like 20 minutes...

Didn't get in till ~4a lol

I remember being young and single too

I still think I am - but my body tells me otherwise
I used to drink, snort & smoke 'til 3am and get up at 7am no probs.

Nowadays, I have to stop by 11 or I can't get out of bed all day!

so you still drink, snort and smoke.. but you stop at 11 ? :shrug:

- nope just the drink these days. Too old for the rest of it