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Remind HN: Turn your clocks back
It's the end of daylight savings time. (At least, for most of us in the US.)
- viraptor 15y agoMakes me wonder... how many people here have clocks which still require this? I've got one only (and it's getting a bit old). None of the our alarm clocks (mobiles) require it. Even some hand watches are synchronized via radio. Will we get rid of manual time changing completely in the next couple of years?
- godinaa 15y agoOnly things like my Sony bedside clock require changing for me.
- adestefan 15y agoI have four I need to change: the clock in my car, an analog clock in my family room, the oven clock, and the microwave clock. Everything else is self changing.
- mdda 15y agoUnfortunately my bedside alarm clock still has the pre-change timezone info : It gave me a fake lie-in on Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago, and will (most likely) have me stumbling out of bed too early tomorrow.
- Urgo 15y agoI don't want to :( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co7WUA900Ds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co7WUA900Ds
- Osiris 15y agoI've been mulling around the idea that the world should just get rid of Daylight Saving Time and Timezones completely. We should all just use UTC. I work with people across the U.S. and every time I setup and meeting we have to always clarify the timezone and it's worse when working with Arizona because sometimes they are in Pacific Time and sometimes in Mountain Time since they don't observe Daylight Saving Time. So, if everyone were on UTC, you could just say "Let's have a meeting at 16:00". 16:00 might be the middle of night for some people or the middle of the morning for others, but who cares? Everyone knows when 16:00 will happen. So, if I agree to the meeting, I don't have to know if they are in Mountain, Eastern, or Japanese time zone, only what time in UTC the meeting is. Done. Easy. No time math. Who's with me?
- viraptor 15y ago> Who's with me? International pilots and the army. Just start calling it Zulu time, instead of UTC.
- Osiris 15y agoI'd heard of Zulu time in passing, usually some military movie or TV shows saying things like "23:30 Zulu", but I never made the connection. It's good to know that some people are using some common sense. I'd love to see it more widely used.
- viraptor 15y agoBut your problem should be fairly easy to solve with proper groupware software. Outlook (even though I hate other things about it) allows me to deal with meetings in UK and many places in US without even knowing what timezones people are in. Can't you use something for group calendar? (google apps?)
- adestefan 15y agoThe name Zulu comes from the US Navy marking timezones with letters. UTC is denoted as timezone Z and the phonetic alphabet calls Z Zulu. Here is the entire timezone map as marked by the Navy: http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/images_aa/TimeZoneMap0210.jpg http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/imag...
- pagekalisedown 15y agoHow do you pronounce "16:00"? 16 o'clock?
- ceejayoz 15y ago"Sixteen hundred hours".
- Osiris 15y agoI've always heard it like "16 hundred hours", though I admit that it might be hard for some people to adjust. I'll usually say something like "Does eleven work for you?", meaning 11am. Since the US is -5 to -8 UTC, it would be something like 16 hundred hours for an 11am meeting, so "Does sixteen work for you?" or "Does sixteen hundred hours.." sounds a little odd.
- callahad 15y agoHey, Android voice commands handle the time change correctly! It's 21:45 local. I just said "set alarm for 24 hours from now" and got back a new alarm for 20:45.