National Silly Clocks day, autumn edition

[jhetley]

Spring ahead, fall back. Problem is, we live so far east we should be in the Maritime Zone with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Daylight Savings Time just puts us close to _real_ time. What idiot put Maine in the same time zone as Michigan? And my digital watch does _not_ reset automatically.

In other news, this computer made a funny fan noise when I started it up this morning. Don't know if it was the case fan or the power supply fan, but I shut down and restarted a few times and the noise went away. And the processor hasn't cooked . . . yet. The machine is a 300 mhz pentium, Win98 just when 98 was first released, and it really doesn't owe me much. But I hadn't planned on shopping for computers anytime soon. May get a Mac next time, get away from the eternal updates and virus attacks. Of course, if there were enough Macs out there to make it worth a punk's time, there'd be viruses and worms and spyware for the Mac.

Don't need a fancy computer. Word processing, simple accounting, and simple digital photo processing. And solitaire. Does the Mac have a solitaire game?

Gray, damp, not actually raining this morning, temps supposed to reach 60 F -- maybe the last time we see 60s until next April.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

My loyalist ancestors would have agreed with you Jim. They felt that Maine (and New York, and Pennsylvania, and all the rest of New England, and even those awful places to the south) should be kept within the Empire.

Still, time zones are an interesting thing. They're really not such a bad idea. They just have odd edge effects.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, as I've commented elsewhere, both my father's parents were born in Ontario....

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Especially when the edges are artificially gerrymandered! For example, Louisville really should be in the same time zone with Chicago -- but sometime way back when, they decided to align themselves with New York instead. So in the summer, it's daylight until nearly 10PM... which feels really odd for being that low a latitude.