The new dates will start next Saturday, March 11 until the first week in November. What repercussions will this have on your life? Will this be a good thing for everyone?

"If banks and other institutions aren't properly prepared, automatic stock trades reportedly might happen at the wrong hour, buildings that unlock at a certain time could stay shut, and airline flight schedules could be scrambled...Some gadgets, such as VCR clocks, may not have any mechanism to update their software."

-- Daylight-saving glitch threatens mini-Y2K - MSNBC.com

Even tho I think time-changing should be a thing of the past, I still like it when it changes in the spring and hate it when it changes back in the fall.

My computer clock probably won't change, but it won't be a problem at all.

Honi, if your computer is set to download automatic updates, you should be fine.

I don't think the change will affect me at all. I'll probably forget completely until I see the cable box. That's what usually happens.

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Originally posted by honilov:
My computer clock probably won't change, but it won't be a problem at all.

as Elexina Has pointed out
Microsoft have issued a patch in the latest updates to keep your computer clock syncronised...You do precisely nothing if you have done this already

Here in the UK we don't "go back" till I think the 24th? and The changes Do affect us as regards IM'ing People for 3 weeks minor things like the AP/DP Site time Zone Differences will be down to 5 hours rather than 6
End of the day the questions are...
"Why have they done this"
"For whom?"
"And who benefits?"

Me> (Very!)

Yeah, my computer is set for the automatic updates.

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The new dates will start next Saturday, March 11

As a foot note March 11th is a Sunday.

I wish they would just do away with Daylight Savings Time altogether...Arizona doesn't do it and they seem to get along ok!

My company sent us the downloads today, so that we could get it taken care of beforehand - my computer (XP) was already set up apparently, but the patch for Office downloaded...My Blackberry updated automatically also, but it was down for 1/2 hr while doing it Good thing I didn't have to make a phone call LOL

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Originally posted by bedstor:

Here in the UK we don't "go back" till I think the 24th?

Almost! Clocks 'go back' here and elsewhere in the EU at 1 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, March the 25th Not a moment too soon. It seems like Summer in Britain already: it was C19 (66 F ! ) in East Anglia yesterday and that harbinger of Spring, the chiff-chaff, was singing its heart out here. (Fancy a bird flying from the South of France to the South of England in search of romance. Weird, and the opposite of us Britons )

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Originally posted by FredPuli:
Not a moment too soon. It seems like Summer in Britain already: it was C19 (66 F ! ) in East Anglia yesterday and that harbinger of Spring, the chiff-chaff, was singing its heart out here. (Fancy a bird flying from the South of France to the South of England in search of romance. Weird, and the opposite of us Britons )

But I thought it was the cuckoo? Not as romantic as the chiff-chaff maybe?

Here in Canada, the first sightings of robins indicate Spring is here.

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Originally posted by dance girl:

But I thought it was the cuckoo? Not as romantic as the chiff-chaff maybe?

Here in Canada, the first sightings of robins indicate Spring is here.

Chiff-chaffs now arrive in mid-March. Cuckoos don't turn up until April (and when 'they' are first heard tend to be doves mistaken for cuckoos No mistaking a chiff-chaff's song !) Can't think that Delius would have written 'On hearing the first chiff-chaff of Spring' though.

So where are your robins in Winter? Do they hibernate in little robin igloos? The European robin is the one conspicuous bird that we do see and hear in Winter, which is why it figures on so many Christmas cards.

The bird we canucks call a robin is actually a red-breasted thrush. It's huge compared to the European robin. The first immigrants called it a robin I suppose because it reminded them of robins. The name stuck. Like calling the aborigines 'Indians'.

There's a joke along those lines.

Scots immigrant, riding on a train and seeing his first moose:

"Whut the hell's that?"
"It's a moose."
"Well if that's a moose, I'd hate to meet one of yer r-r-rats!"

[QUOTE]Originally posted by FredPuli:
So where are your robins in Winter? Do they hibernate in little robin igloos?QUOTE]

Igloos? No, that's just a stereotypical image of robins that all narrow minded Europeans tend to have.

They actually have teeny tiny log cabins in the wilderness, and travel about by dog sled.

May seem daft Me saying this now, but this is 100% True I heard a cuckoo in February about 20 years ago, Feb 25 to Be precise ...which is my Birthday...And they weren't Banging on about global warrming then
We have wood pigeons ,and magpies aplenty in our town and the Ubiquitous starlings, Thrushes and Seagulls which are scavenging further inland (away from the coast)
Robins,cuckoos also Lapwings I havent seen or heard for a few years There are a Handful of crows in the local fields
I should point out I am not a bird watcher but I enjoy the Countryside
And our Local town has few natural woods ,green spaces and there are dozens of "steel shed" industrial units