Comments on: Daylight savings, the iPhone way

By: Bass-playing Chemist

Bass-playing Chemist — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:24:41 +0000

Yes, changing the clocks automatically when required is good news but over the weekend SuSE linux set my desktop clock back one hour, then when I did a bit of work in windows, xp decided to do the same. Marvelous.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:11:09 +0000

I have to disagree with you that “it’s great that… they change themselves when they need to and keep our daily routines flowing smoothly regardless of our own forgetfulness.” Unfortunately, my government has chosen to follow the poorly-thought-out U.S. policy of arbitrarily altering the DST dates to give the appearance of caring about the environment. So for me, the clock change is not supposed to happen until this upcoming weekend. Since all the technology around me is much smarter than the U.S. government (what isn’t?), I was an hour late for work this Monday.

By: David Wright

David Wright — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:44:10 +0000

Yep, computers have been coping with the change for over a decade, although they used to politely inform the user that the time had changed, or it should change, are you sure?

Most of the clocks here and at my girlfriends use the atomic time signal, so they change themselves automatically as well (although the analogue alarm clock next to the bed woke me up when it started whirring away!).

Funnily enough, my non-iPhone mobile also changed itself automatically (Windows Mobile), although it did pop up a little reminder to say that it had changed automatically, and not to make a pratt of myself when I got to the office.

By: lucar

lucar — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:50:14 +0000

You should go back to Win98 then, it required the user to OK the time shift.

By: Not him.

Not him. — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:15:11 +0000

They go to all that efort so you don’t even have to think about it, and you complain you didn’t notice? They can’t win, can they?