DST Question
Cidu Bill on Mar 15th 2010
I was just wondering… If you have OnStar or Sirius Radio in your car, does your dashboard clock change by itself when DST begins (the same way the time in your cell phone and DVR do)?
Filed in Bill Bickel, Daylight Saving Time, OnStar, Sirius Radio | 25 responses so far
George P Mar 15th 2010 at 03:18 pm 1
I have Sirius satellite radio, and the clock did not change.
Bearman Mar 15th 2010 at 03:28 pm 2
Nope.
furrykef Mar 15th 2010 at 04:01 pm 3
My cell phone didn’t. I had to turn it off and back on before it did. Woke up from a nap an hour late because of it, too.
Elyrest Mar 15th 2010 at 04:17 pm 4
My cell phone didn’t update either. I manually changed it.
George P Mar 15th 2010 at 05:15 pm 5
My cell phone did, but the alarm still went off an hour late this morning. Thanks, Microsoft!
furrykef Mar 15th 2010 at 05:26 pm 6
Funny, George, my mother just told me that she had the same problem.
tee_eff_em Mar 15th 2010 at 07:46 pm 7
Not only did my phone change to DST with no intervention from me, it also decided that I liked my daily alarms to be 24 hours apart, not at-the-same-local-time-every-day, so it changed my 6am wake-up to 7am.
Thanks a lot, stoopid phone company that rhymes with “shmamsung” (and/or carrier that rhymes with “shmerizon”)!
Ray Brady Mar 15th 2010 at 08:19 pm 8
OnStar is in no way connected to my clock.
What did surprise me is that my iPod Touch changed time automatically, even though the Wi-Fi was off.
tee_eff_em Mar 15th 2010 at 08:54 pm 9
Back when I thought digital watches were a neat idea, I had one* that included setting the year when setting the date. It never displayed the year, it only kept track of it so as to know when 28-Feb would be followed by 29-Feb instead of 1-Mar. I guess it also did its own day-of-week calculation, but that’s not hard, except for the bissextile dingus .(Never had one that did its own DST adjustment though)
(* Manufacturer rhymed with “shmasio”)
David N Mar 15th 2010 at 09:22 pm 10
Nope on the radio. Yes on the Touch and both BBs (one on shmerizon and the other on shmrint).
“Bissextile dingus”? Better not let Nicole hear you talkin’ like that …
Lola Mar 15th 2010 at 10:07 pm 11
My mother would sometimes use dingus to refer to a tubular man’s body part. I figured she’d made it up. Come to find the definition makes her use of it in that context to be pretty witty. Of course, she could have just heard it somewhere else, though I never had.
Elyrest Mar 15th 2010 at 10:52 pm 12
So men have oompa loompas and a dingus? Somehow this didn’t get covered in health class.
Cidu Bill Mar 15th 2010 at 10:54 pm 13
It did, Elyrest. It’s just that in health class, they had to make up silly names for them.
Elyrest Mar 16th 2010 at 12:02 am 14
Cidu Bill - My sister taught my nephew all the “correct” names for body parts when he was just 3-5. For years he thought girls had virginias. I often wondered what states the boys had.
Kamino Neko Mar 16th 2010 at 12:08 am 15
Boys don’t have a state. They have a peninsula.
Homer Simpson Mar 16th 2010 at 01:04 am 16
And that peninsula has a name: Florida.
George P Mar 16th 2010 at 01:23 am 17
Is this topic going to take over every comic?
Ted Mar 16th 2010 at 02:48 am 18
2003 Tahoe Bose Radio with the RDS that gets song info on the display doesn’t do it automatically, you have to hold two buttons, then it picks it up off the air, if that station sends it, if not, you use another station.
Morris Keesan Mar 16th 2010 at 09:30 am 19
One of my young cousins was told that the correct name for his dingus wasn’t “noodle”. The next day when having lunch at [day care? kindergarten? first grade?], he explained to his teachers that the correct name for the soup he was eating wasn’t “chicken noodle”, and proceeded to tell them the anatomically correct name. That may have been the first of several “what are you teaching your child?” phone calls that his father got.
[The only devices I have that automatically adjust to time shifts are my mobile phone, a few radio-controlled clocks, and Windows XP. The phone does it because it matters more that it’s in sync with the base station than that it has the correct time. And lots of software, in phones and elsewhere, stupidly stores alarm times and appointment times in GMT instead of local time.]
mkilby Mar 16th 2010 at 10:47 am 20
I’m not looking forward to the first day of DST at all (Europe doesn’t shift until the end of the month). Besides the “lost” hour, the only devices we have that automatically change for DST are several radio-controlled alarm clocks. Of course, this does not help with all the “normal” clocks, radios, cell phones, video recorders, computers, et cetera ad nauseam: a very long list, including two clocks in our car (one in the radio), neither one of which is easy to reset.
I still think that the productivity lost in managing the two adjustments each year probably erases any minor amount of energy saved.
Someone Else Mar 16th 2010 at 10:49 am 21
When I was in Mrs. Smith’s second-grade class, a girl in my class told me she was known for her modesty, which she explained meant you can draw or paint well. (I knew she was wrong about that, and corrected her with the information that it meant you don’t like for people to see your peepee and tushy.)
Much later when I remembered this incident I tried to reconstruct her history with the word, and came up with a story: She had done some art work that her family or teacher praised, and when she gave some kind of “aw shucks” response they said “And she’s so modest!”.
Kelps Mar 16th 2010 at 02:29 pm 22
I have Sirius and it DID change. And it changes when I cross time zones, too, as does my phone.
Dan Mar 16th 2010 at 04:08 pm 23
Siriusly? Awesome!
@Ray Brady - your Touch doesn’t need Wifi to tell you the time. It just knows, man!
Mark in Boston Mar 17th 2010 at 12:14 am 24
I knew there had to be a reason the composer of “Pictures at an Exhibition” was known as Modest Mussorgsky.
mitch4 Apr 4th 2010 at 08:20 am 25
This morning (sometime last night) one clock advanced itself by an hour. As it was one I manually advanced a couple weeks ago, thinking it did not auto-adjust, today it was an hour ahead of where it should be. Apparently it does have an auto-DST mechanism, but is wrong about the calendar for that.