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The clocks when forward at 1.00 this morning (London GMT) and i set my clock foward before i went to bed, and the correct alarm time and it seemed to set itself back an hour!! I was late of course for work and blame it all on my P900! Anyone else late!???
[ This Message was edited by: masseur on 2004-03-28 16:43 ]
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Posted: 2004-03-28 17:10:05
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did you manually change the actual time or did you click the summertime tab in the time & date settings and tick europe which is what I did.
I had no problems when I woke up
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Posted: 2004-03-28 17:43:15
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I used the summertime tab and it was fine!
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Posted: 2004-03-28 19:41:07
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i think azzeg has set the clock manually but ha also used the summertime tab (automatic)
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Posted: 2004-03-28 19:43:36
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@masseur - What's all this I am seeing/reading about this adjusting of your local time in Europe during the onset of 'summertime' ??? Is it also the same as the so-called 'Daylight Saving Time' ? Thanks !
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Posted: 2004-03-28 19:51:41
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you worked today? anyway the only problem with summertime, or daylight savings time, whatever, is that we get 1 hour less sleep....
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Posted: 2004-03-28 19:56:42
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But pls what IS this daylight saving thingy?
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Posted: 2004-03-28 20:08:20
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Daylight savings time seems to be a good resource for this...
The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time (called "Summer Time" many places in the world) is to make better use of daylight. We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. Countries have different change dates. Glide your cursor over the map to see how changing the clocks affects different latitudes.
If you live near the equator, day and night are nearly the same length (12 hours). But elsewhere on Earth, there is much more daylight in the Summer than in the Winter. The closer you live to the North or South pole, the longer the summers. Thus, Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) is not helpful in the tropics, and countries near the equator do not usually change their clocks.
it goes on to say that daylight savings also saves energy...
Daylight Saving Time also saves energy. Studies done by the U.S. Department of Transportation show that Daylight Saving Time trims the entire country's electricity usage by a significant, but small amount, of less than one percent each day with Daylight Saving Time. We save energy in both the evening and the morning because we use less electricity for lighting and appliances. Similarly, In New Zealand, power companies have found that power usage decreases 3.5% when daylight saving starts. In the first week, peak evening consumption commonly drops around 5%.
Energy use and the demand for electricity for lighting our homes is directly connected to when we go to bed and when we get up. Bedtime for most of us is late evening through the year. When we go to bed, we turn off the lights and TV. In the average home, 25 percent of all the electricity we use is for lighting and small appliances, such as TVs, VCRs and stereos. A good percentage of energy consumed by lighting and appliances occurs in the evening when families are home. By moving the clock ahead one hour, we can cut the amount of electricity we consume each day.
The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin during his sojourn as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, in an essay, "An Economical Project."
Today approximately 70 countries utilize Daylight Saving Time in at least a portion of the country. The only major industrialized country not to have introduced daylight saving is Japan.
take a look at the site, its quite interesting.
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Posted: 2004-03-28 20:17:25
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I don't know of others countries, but here in Slovakia we're stoping to change the time in year 2006. I liked it, especially when I was a child, 'cos in summer it was more daylight I and musn't go home so early.
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Posted: 2004-03-28 20:25:42
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Also have a look here
Daylight Saving Time
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Posted: 2004-03-28 20:26:03
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