Comments on: DST Question

By: mitch4

mitch4 — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:20:39 +0000

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.

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:14:34 +0000

I knew there had to be a reason the composer of “Pictures at an Exhibition” was known as Modest Mussorgsky.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:08:41 +0000

Siriusly? Awesome!

@Ray Brady - your Touch doesn’t need Wifi to tell you the time. It just knows, man!

By: Kelps

Kelps — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:29:51 +0000

I have Sirius and it DID change. And it changes when I cross time zones, too, as does my phone.

By: Someone Else

Someone Else — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:49:57 +0000

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!”.

By: mkilby

mkilby — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:47:55 +0000

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.

By: Morris Keesan

Morris Keesan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:30:11 +0000

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.]

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:48:44 +0000

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.

By: George P

George P — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:23:36 +0000

Is this topic going to take over every comic?

By: Homer Simpson

Homer Simpson — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:04:57 +0000

And that peninsula has a name: Florida.