Okay, it’s time for my semi-annual rant about consumer electronics that tell time. Just about everything seems to tell the time these days, from microwave ovens to electronic picture frames. Some of them make sense; a cell phone needs an internal clock, I believe, to help negotiate communications with cell towers, for example. I’m not [...]
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HDTV Almanac - It’s Time for Electronics to Fall Back
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alfredpoor
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GiovannaVisconti
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It's time for electronics to fall back!
In my house?
Sixteen altogether. Including clocks/watches/radios...and a VCR (this was a device with which one could record television programs on TAPE and then play them back. Oh well, you had to be there). Then also my wonderful Cuisinart coffee maker which can grind its own beans, but cannot, of course, reset it's clock!
Sixteen altogether. Including clocks/watches/radios...and a VCR (this was a device with which one could record television programs on TAPE and then play them back. Oh well, you had to be there). Then also my wonderful Cuisinart coffee maker which can grind its own beans, but cannot, of course, reset it's clock!
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No Daylight Savings Here, either!
Your article mentions moving to Hawaii, because there is no DST. There is no DST here, either, in AZ. The largest problem we have is with electronics that have DST adjustment. Some change and have to be adjusted back to MST, which we are all 365 days per year.
Why, you ask? Would you like it to still be 100 at 10 PM? Today the 1967 15-18 energy increase AZ saw, would be staggering. BTW, I wasn't here in 1967 or for many years thereafter. I left NY for Chicago in 1979, and traded Chicago for Tucson, in 1981. I moved to Scottsdale, the year after and have been here since, and we have no DST, here, except on the Navajo reservation in the NE corner of the state. It's also 82 F today, and 15% relative humidity.
Why, you ask? Would you like it to still be 100 at 10 PM? Today the 1967 15-18 energy increase AZ saw, would be staggering. BTW, I wasn't here in 1967 or for many years thereafter. I left NY for Chicago in 1979, and traded Chicago for Tucson, in 1981. I moved to Scottsdale, the year after and have been here since, and we have no DST, here, except on the Navajo reservation in the NE corner of the state. It's also 82 F today, and 15% relative humidity.
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automatic DST
Back in the 80s I actually had a VCR (a Phillips, I believe) that reset itself for daylight time. But in those days most of the civilized world changed on the same days and so for an interrnational company only one setting was required for its products. But then our geniuses in Washington decided to move the US dates by 2 weeks thus putting us out of sync with the rest of the world. I got caught by this when I tried to record a foreign broadcast on the internet and the time difference I had successfuly applied before did not work.