Daylight Saving starts tonight
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business.vic.gov.auPosted Oct 4, 2014, 3:53 AM UTC
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business.vic.gov.auI am mesmerised by those little looping flash clocks.
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I have also accurately remembered them.
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Ahh I'm an idiot.
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Try this.
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What's that even counting?
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The time (in Tokyo, I would assume?)
Edit: cough Sorry I meant "who cares! hot girls!"
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I watched it again, and just realised I watched about 90 seconds of an advertisement just for the hot girls.
Such an effective ad campaign.
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they're gifs
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Bring on summer!
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It really helps with the feeling that summer is just around the corner when DST starts.
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Yeah my fucking phone just woke me up for a 5am run at 4am.no wonder I'm still wandering through the house bumping into shut and trying to find my shoes.
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Found them. They were next to the front door apparently I was being prepared.
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Why do I feel like it's far too early for this? Have we always switched to DST this early?
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No, not always. I can remember it was different once too.
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Upvote for not calling it daylight savings
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Australian Daylight Time is the official term!
Daylights savings is the Coburg term.
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That page had to be the most complicated way to explain what to do tomorrow.
Why couldn't the relevant information on that page be above the fold and just say CLOCKS GO FORWARD 1 HOUR and show the 1 clock animation?
Thats the government for ya
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Woops I thought it was tomorrow night!
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Always a Saturday night/Sunday morning so minimal disruptions.
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Cheers!
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Working in Queensland at the moment, I was prepared, in case there was a stuff up. Queenslanders at work weren't. Anyone who had their phones set to auto update time, went to work an hour early!
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There may or may not be a major hospital or two that have a system that has to be manually tweaked around dat. Not once a year, mind you, but 4 times every year.
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I dunno if this was a sign of DST but before I went to bed in the early hours of this morning, I suddenly got this huge sweat out of nowhere.
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Nope. Go see a doctor.
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I really don't get peoples' aversion to this.
It's light at 6am - why would people prefer daylight at 5am and darkness at 7pm?
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Is it just me, or is daylight savings not that huge of a deal? Other than my watches, everything else I use to tell time is connected to the internet and thus knows when daylight savings is.
The problem is when some things change and some haven't I end up having to double check everything to make sure it's changed itself.
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I've got a bedside clock radio, stove, microwave, washing machine, dryer, central heating, evaporative cooling, watch, and two analogue clocks to adjust.
There goes my morning...
don't bother, I mean... April is just a few months away after all
That's true, I suppose.
And a little depressing when you put it like that.
No kidding, I wake up and everything is changed, it's not really a big deal.
Takes all the fun out of DST really.
It is a big deal to me, I can rock up an hour late to work and blame day light saving any more.
It's been years since I've even noticed. Nothing I own has a clock that isn't NTP or GPS locked, so it's all automagic.
Not even your microwave?
Don't own one (surprised?).
If I cared I'd set the clock on my air conditioner, but I don't even know where the remote is.
Car? The ones I have to change manually are the microwave, bedside clock and car.
I hope to never own a microwave with a digital screen and buttons. Manual twist dials all day.
who sets the clock on their microwave!
NTP and GPS don't include daylight savings, or even timezones for that matter...
Both methods provide dates, which normal clocks don't have and so can't compensate for DST themselves. I wrote the software for the clock so I'm very much aware of that fact. To be more correct it's actually GLONASS not just GPS, but nobody else knows what that is. Short of buying a rubidium clock I would say that I have little concern for the accuracy of my procrastination.
any perpetual date clock or watch has the date, it's nothing special, and has nothing to do with synchronisation. even if you turned off the sync on your clock the DST change would still work. even with your sync on, next time the DST rules change you'll have to update the rules on your clocks yourself
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
the internet doesn't know when daylight savings is. just wait until the rules need updating again...