Daylight Saving – Movie Trailer – IOTW Report

Daylight Saving – Movie Trailer

WILL YOU BE READY?

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h/t Really Enraged.

29 Comments on Daylight Saving – Movie Trailer

  1. Cute trailer….. Brings to mind the Indian meme that suggests that only a white man could believe that if you cut twelve inches off of one end of a blanket and sew it on to the other end, it would make the blanket longer…….. or some such.
    “Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell

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  2. DST is a huge govt. created oxymoron. How does one save daylight in the first place? Can you catch it and save it in a special jar for those occasions when you need an extra hr. of daylight? And where does daylight go when it’s over? Of course it becomes night till the next day when it always comes back. Saving daylight makes as much sense as saying the Sun rises in the West. And what if you live on the Equator where both day and night are equal. Do they have DST in Alaska when the Sun is out 20 + hrs. a day in the Summer and almost no hrs. in the Winter? And do animals or birds know when it’s DST or not? I hate it when it’s dark at 4:30 PM this time of yr. but love it when the Sun comes up as early possible in the Spring and Summer.

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  3. Feels like the first time
    Feels like the very first time
    Feels like the first time
    Feels like the very first time
    Like we’ve opened up an IOTW door

    3600 millimeterliberalliters more seconds to enjoy

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  4. Why are they still doing this? The Government has hundreds of thousands of warehouses full of surplus daylight by now, and the number goes up every year. They haven’t found a good scientific or commercial use for it yet, and they can’t just release it because boom! – instant global warming!

    President Trump: Please – stop the madness!

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  5. Sidebar:

    Once upon a time, back before there was such a thing as Information Technology and all there was was Data Processing, we had to make do with great big room-filling IBM machines that cost a million or more dollars and weren’t as smart as a hundred dollar smart phone. They were so dumb, they only had one clock built in, and when you fired that machine up the operator had to tell it what time it was.

    The implications of Daylight Saving Time changes were profound in such a setup. First off, you couldn’t expect people using the computer to trust the darn thing if it didn’t know the correct time, so we couldn’t just ignore DST. In the spring, when the clocks jump ahead one hour, we had to shut the machine down and restart it, telling it the correct time as it came alive. But you can’t simply stop one of those machines with any batch work still running. That would screw up data files and it would be a real time-consuming pain in the ass to restore and reprocess. So it might take an hour or two of gradually letting everything come to a graceful end so we could do the restart. Remember: these boxes were expensive and the bean counters wanted to get the most bang for their beans. Running the machine at anything less than full capacity was frowned upon.

    If this weren’t bad enough, in the fall when the clocks back up one hour, you couldn’t just restart the machine up right away. There are all kinds of logging functions that keep track of what’s going on inside and all of that logged data has time stamps. If you restarted right away at 2:00 a.m. and told the machine it was now 1:00 a.m., there would be overlapping periods in the logs.

    Let’s just say that when this happened results were unpredictable except insofar as those results were predictably very, very bad.

    What did we do? When we shut the machine down at 2:00 a.m. we let is sit there powered down for a full hour. So, we not only had the diminishing workload period leading up to the shutdown, we had an extra hour of no work at all on top of that.

    I really, really got to hate Daylight Saving Time in addition to always thinking it was a stupid idea.

    p.s. Technology eventually caught up and the boxes were given multiple clocks so we could even accommodate leap seconds, but that took a while.

    Edit: FYI, this was in the 1970s.

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  6. Crackerbaby…”Cute trailer….. Brings to mind the Indian meme that suggests that only a white man could believe that if you cut twelve inches off of one end of a blanket and sew it on to the other end, it would make the blanket longer”.

    So, that’s why my feet are still cold!

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  7. @Mannix I.T.:

    Uncle Al
    Did you write that?
    It wasn’t fixed til the mid 80s if I recall

    Yes, I wrote that just now. And you’re right about mid 80s. It was the introduction of Sysplex and the Sysplex Clock that finally wrapped it up (more or less).

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  8. I don’t care what anyone says, even my wife, I think Daylight Savings Time works well. I’ve gone thru a hell of a lot worse than adjusting watch by an hour. Jeez, get a grip!

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