DST

[semperfiona]

Friday, I received this email at work:

We just wanted to send out an email to have everyone check
there[sic] calendar in Outlook on Monday morning (March 12) to make sure
your times have adjusted accordingly.

We have done everything possible to patch your PC's to prepare us for
the DST change but we want to make sure everyone's calendars move with
the DST change.

If you do notice your time is wrong next week please run the
applications below with the defaults.

[redacted]

So I log in this morning, I look at the system time, it looks perfect.
All my sent and received email has sensical timestamps. I figure the
update worked.

I'm working away, when I get a reminder notice to go to yoga class. A
couple minutes later, I get my yoga mat and clothes out and go
downstairs to the room. It's locked, dark, and empty. No one's workout
bag is sitting in the restroom where everyone changes.

I look at my cellphone clock: it's 12:40. Class is at 11:40 on Mondays.

I come back upstairs, and look at my Outlook calendar. All the recurring
appointments that were created--and started--prior to the time change
have been shifted one hour later without notice.

So I ran the application from the email, and it put them all back. But
I've missed yoga today, and I blame Microsoft.

Comments

[notshakespeare.livejournal.com]

We were all mailed an app and told to run it now. It modified all reoccuring meetings in Outlook.

It almost worked right.

[jilly-bear.livejournal.com]

I just checked my calendar and everything seems to be ok. Wonder why some are and some aren't. May have something to do with the fact that I download updates directly from Microsoft about every two weeks and it might have been in one of those that the techy guys missed.

[lapis-lazuli615.livejournal.com]

Hey, blame the Shrub too. This whole changing DST thing was his idea (or, at least, his advisors'... but he took it and ran).

[curgoth]

We, on the other hand, were told to just cancel all of our meetings after the 10th and rebook them. Given how short we are on meeting rooms, I pity those with the foresight to have planned that far ahead - I imagine many meetings had to be cancelled or moved to later dates due to lack of rooms.

JUMPING UP AND DOWN WAVING MY HANDS AROUND

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

Both Woof and I left our phones at home today! Please call me at work ASAP so I'll know when you guys are coming over for dinner tonight. Woof has our work numbers up in a locked post in his LJ.

(When in panic or in doubt, Run in circles scream and shout)

[jilly-bear.livejournal.com]

Personally I think we should skip the whole DST and stay on one time all year. I've live in all 3 states (can you name them?) that do not* 'spring forward and fall back' and the world did not end.

* One of said states has since succumbed to 'the man' and just this year started observing daylight saving time.... Grrrrr!

blame Microsoft

[bzero]

Easy to blame Microsoft -- they are evil and well-deserving of scorn. *grin*

skip the whole DST

[bzero]

That's they way I feel. Don't we have the electric light now? Shouldn't we be a little more independent of the skyball, for at least an hour a day? *facepalm*