How Does It Do That?
27 March 2005, 11:03 AM
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How Does It Do That?
How does my PC know which day the clocks will change?
And would it be totally lost if the clocks remained the same at some time in the future?
Pete
And would it be totally lost if the clocks remained the same at some time in the future?
Pete
27 March 2005, 11:07 AM
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I was wondering the same thing myself.
Isn't it about time (arf arf) that this changing the clocks mularky was put to an end. I thought there was some talk about this at one time.
Isn't it about time (arf arf) that this changing the clocks mularky was put to an end. I thought there was some talk about this at one time.
27 March 2005, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
How does my PC know which day the clocks will change?
And would it be totally lost if the clocks remained the same at some time in the future?
Pete
And would it be totally lost if the clocks remained the same at some time in the future?
Pete
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27 March 2005, 12:08 PM
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Regional Settings mate if your operating system is Microsoft.
As for the future if it did happen your microsoft updates would probably set it for you.
Jim
As for the future if it did happen your microsoft updates would probably set it for you.
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27 March 2005, 12:14 PM
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AHA!!
So, how many years is it in a table for?
And if the practise is stopped (as it should be!) MS will have an update to Windows!
Thanks, thats clear now!
Damned clever these Japanese!!
Pete
So, how many years is it in a table for?
And if the practise is stopped (as it should be!) MS will have an update to Windows!
Thanks, thats clear now!
Damned clever these Japanese!!
Pete
27 March 2005, 04:48 PM
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Why would it even need a table? Its the last sunday in march and the last sunday in oct? Aint rocket science is it.
Plus if you can get windows to synch to an NTP server (Network Time Protocol).
Simon.
Plus if you can get windows to synch to an NTP server (Network Time Protocol).
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27 March 2005, 05:33 PM
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all the things computers can do nowadays, landing commercial jets, targeting missles to a square metre from a hundered miles away...and this is what impressed you!?!?
bit like when you spend ages choosing your kids present then they end up playing in the box it came in!
bit like when you spend ages choosing your kids present then they end up playing in the box it came in!
27 March 2005, 06:14 PM
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What I mean is it has a look up table of rules for daylight saving. Not just for the UK but for everywhere else in the world that uses it.
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27 March 2005, 07:35 PM
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Question is - why have daylight saving time at all? I know why it was introduced but shouldn't this have been phased out eons ago?
27 March 2005, 07:38 PM
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Because the cowardly scots - you know, men with frocks - are terrified of the dark!!
Thats why we ALL have to suffer!!
I say, tell them to become real men ..... stop wearing skirts and get used to the spookies of the night!
Pete
Thats why we ALL have to suffer!!
I say, tell them to become real men ..... stop wearing skirts and get used to the spookies of the night!
Pete