Posted on 07/21/2005 7:50:19 PM PDT by SmithL
yup , here they go "monkeying" with things that are OK!! YIKES, what's next, disabling a cylinder on ALL vehicles?!!??
They have so much specialized stuff, custom programs they've wrote to fit the processors, etc. I don't know the details, I just know he said it's going to be a huge PITA if this is passed. I just skim the edge of this stuff. I'm an engineer, but programming and EE are not my fields.
I thought there was a war on terror going on. Sometimes I wonder how they can think when they are sitting down. Maybe this is the type of drivel that oozes up as they sit.
How could it adversely affect livestock? This city boy doesn't get it.
Like I said earlier though, I'm suprised that any real-time control processes even care about local time, especially since all time on Unix is calculated as offsets from EPOCH (Midnight, Jan 1, 1970). For instance Epoch time at 00:05:53 CDT on 05.22.2005 is 1122008753
Everyone needs to tell Bush to veto this. Computers, VCRs, Wrist Watches And who knows what else will be all but junk.
Livestock can tell time?
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Just get rid of the idiocy!
They can't it's time sensitive work. It's really dependant upon time. The stuff they do has to be done within a specified period.
Re: affecting livestock
The issue is the change-over from ST to DT and vice-versa. Dairy animals are especially affected by changes in their milking schedule.
I'm not sure how moving the date of change up a month in the Spring (now late Winter) and a week later in the autumn makes a difference, though. It is the disruption to the schedule that is the problem, not necessarily which weekend it happens to take place.
Of course the farmer could keep his milking schedule the same irrespective of the the time change (e.g., 6AM on ST and 5AM on DT), but that messes up HIS schedule relative to meetings, appointments, repair shop hours, and other human-related activities that are changed with the local time change.
...and I screwed up the example.
It would be 5AM on ST and 6AM on DT in order to make no changes from Bossie's point of view.
I always hate getting up in the moring when it is still dark and getting home from work when it is dark.
You know, that's not a bad idea.....I will write my representative.........
Of course, you must start legislation to disable 2 cylinders or all the engines would run too far out of balance.
Just think, all the terrorist bombs would go off an hour earlier!
Sometimes I wonder how they can think when they are sitting down.
My guess is that this is a bone that is thrown to liberal Repubs for support of drilling in ANWAR.
Much like humans, animals are programmed to sleep when it is dark. This is a time of rest.
If you milk or feed the livestock at 6am, it does affect them because they are still sleeping. Changing the start of the day to darkness can have an adverse affect on milk production, egg production and growth due to a disruption of sleep patterns.
Bottom line: animals like it better when you feed them at first light and again at last light.
The sun never does set. It just keeps rolling along....
Children will be going to school in the dark...that has been condidered a safey issue in the past.
Uh... don't these morons have just a FEW more pressing things to worry about than screwing with an already screwy system??
I agree. Hawaii and parts of Arizona and other states don't recognize it at all.
It's one of the dumbest legacy "programs".
If farmers need extra light, make "daylight savings time" year round. Just pick a time, and stick with it 365 days/year.
There is no longer any purpose whatsoever for DST, and I have no idea why they would be voting to adjust it rather than abolish it.
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