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a solution to changing clocks
By twnorows on 4/9/2008 1:01:07 PM , Rating: 0
Why can't the government force ALL appliance manufacturers (the ones with a clock) to implement firmware that also includes setting the date. This way, the firmware looks to see if it should "spring ahead" or "fall back" automatically.

This way, the appliance would need No attention (setting it forward/behind). At least Microsoft got it right.

This way, I wouldn't need to (TWICE A YEAR) run around resetting the clock in the radio of two cars, the clock in the garage, the two alarm clocks, the clock in the stereo entertainment, the clocks in two microwaves, the "convenience" digital clock near my workbench, the clock in my VHS player, the clock in my DVD recorder, the clock in our electric range. I probably forgot several, but life is too complex to try to remember what/where clocks are that need to be reset twice a year.

IF (big IF) a smart appliance company had a brain (instead of cranial-rectal inversion), they could get a significant edge on their competitors by TRUMPETING that their product is DST-FRIENDLY (that's Daylight Savings Time FRENDLY to those of you in Rio Linde). You just set it once and forget it.

Who in their right mind would buy anything from another manufacturer knowing that the product included additional aggrevation twice a year.

But as far as it saving energy, NOT. It's darker in the morning so we need to turn on more lightbulbs. No energy savings here. Further, although it's lighter later, it means more people are out in their cars shopping (and burning gas) because darkness brings with it a disincentive to go out.

If one hundred million people have to reset all their clocks twice a year - and it takes each person about 15 minutes to get them all, this is a cumulative total productivity loss of 171,703 MAN YEARS for just one resetting. There are two resettings per year, so we're losing over 342,406 MAN YEARS of productivity per year.

So my question is this: "Where's the savings?"

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