Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Quentin
Originally posted by JoeKoh Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 2, 2005 8:17 AM Bah, i wi***hey'd drop this stupid thing, i mean really, the Germans invented it in WW2 to save on fuel oil for the homes. we don't need it intodays society. Reply Edit JoeKoh Member sinceApril 2003 From: Defiance Ohio 13,289 posts Posted by JoeKoh on Saturday, April 2, 2005 12:29 PM Steamerfan I thought it was brought on earlier by the roosevelt(FDR) administration? could be wrong stay safe Joe Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener"). Reply cherokee woman Member sinceNovember 2003 From: Louisville, KY 9,002 posts Posted by cherokee woman on Saturday, April 2, 2005 12:31 PM Thanks Joe, for the reminder. You can bet that I'll be setting clocks up tonight before I go to bed. cherokee woman "O'Toole's law: Murphy was an optimist." Reply selector Member sinceFebruary 2005 From: Vancouver Island, BC 23,321 posts Posted by selector on Saturday, April 2, 2005 2:27 PM I agree that, like steam [V], its time has come and gone. It is an irrelevant relic of earlier times, and statistically causes more motor vehicle accidents and health claims in the days following. Reply mudchicken Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Denver / La Junta 10,789 posts Posted by mudchicken on Saturday, April 2, 2005 2:51 PM Lessee here, a retired fella and a young pup not yet in the workforce.... That extra hour or two at the end of the day is a godsend to a surveyor/mudchicken. Except for GPS(*), working in the dark is not efficient. When you have to do your precision optical work either near dawn or dusk, that extra hour shifted ahead is appreciated. If you never have experienced heatwaves through a transit, theodolite, total station or level, you're in for a real treat. (*) The GPS works great in the dark, but the surveyor stumbles around in the dark. Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 2, 2005 3:54 PM Spring foward and leave it there all yr long is the thing to do Reply Edit M636C Member sinceJanuary 2002 4,612 posts Posted by M636C on Saturday, April 2, 2005 4:38 PM We just went through the change back from Summer Time a week ago, since it is Autumn here. I assume you guys call the reverse "Fall back", but the term "Fall" isn't used much here. Only trees imported from Europe lose their leaves here, the great majority of trees being evergreens. We miss the extra hour of sunlight relative to the rail timetables. On Friday, because the sun set earlier, I missed the late running ATN (Australian Transport Network) grain train. Although it has been taken over by Pacific National, it often still uses the GT26Cs (1967 built modified SD40s) in Wisconsin Central colours, which are kept cleaner now that the operator has money to maintain them. Before the take over, I saw the train stop for water because the cooling systems were losing water so badly. They used the garden hoses on a big passenger station. Most freight trains run through the night here, and we see fewer of them. The really fast container service BM2 (BM = Brisbane - Melbourne, the main East Coast line) did come through just before the light failed. Peter Reply Modelcar Member sinceFebruary 2002 From: Muncie, Indiana...Orig. from Pennsylvania 13,456 posts Posted by Modelcar on Saturday, April 2, 2005 7:11 PM ...wow...Filling that large of cooling system with a garden hose must have taken some time out of the schedule.... Quentin Reply egmurphy Member sinceJanuary 2003 From: Mexico 2,629 posts Posted by egmurphy on Saturday, April 2, 2005 7:12 PM QUOTE: steamerfan: ...the Germans invented it in WW2 to save on fuel oil for the homes...Close, actually it was started during WW1. But you're right in that the Germans were the first to implement it (whether or not they invented it is up for question). Here's a good short summary of Daylight Saving Time: http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html Regards Ed The Rail Images Page of Ed Murphy "If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home." - James Michener Reply Modelcar Member sinceFebruary 2002 From: Muncie, Indiana...Orig. from Pennsylvania 13,456 posts Posted by Modelcar on Saturday, April 2, 2005 7:17 PM Peter, it is my understanding your winter is really not the kind of winter we're capable of getting here in this part of the world...{for me central Indiana}....and of course we're just starting into spring now. Just today in fact, we've noted the little green leaves coming out on brush alongside the county road and buds on our trees bursting through...And...I expect to start my yard mowing season this coming Monday. A great time of the year for my liking...everything becoming green and blossoms will be out soon with their fragrance, etc....Our winter snow fall was almost right on normal....26 inches. Quentin Reply locomutt Member sinceSeptember 2003 From: Louisville,Ky. 5,077 posts Posted by locomutt on Saturday, April 2, 2005 10:49 PM Thanks for the reminder. Why can't we just change our personal schedules, and leave the clocks alone?!?! Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!! Reply Puckdropper Member sinceDecember 2002 From: US 725 posts Posted by Puckdropper on Sunday, April 3, 2005 12:03 AM Modelcar, head west in to Illinois if you want to see a darker shade of green. I think the grass in Illinois on (heading in on IN Rt 10) was actually greener! locomutt, they adjust the clocks because they will not adjust their schedule. Lunch at 1? Absurd. Lunch at noon, now that's different... It's what I call a "stupid human trick." It's just like setting a clock ahead 10 minutes so you won't be late... It doesn't work for me because I know the clock's wrong and thus ignore it. Reply locomutt Member sinceSeptember 2003 From: Louisville,Ky. 5,077 posts Posted by locomutt on Sunday, April 3, 2005 7:28 AM Lost an hour of sleep last night,had to call my sister this morning to make sure she was awake. I hate resetting clocks! At least the rhyme is good;Spring Forward,Fall Backward. Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!! Reply spbed Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Austin TX 4,941 posts Posted by spbed on Sunday, April 3, 2005 7:33 AM Well I'm reset but my newspaper is still not in the driveway! Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub Reply Modelcar Member sinceFebruary 2002 From: Muncie, Indiana...Orig. from Pennsylvania 13,456 posts Posted by Modelcar on Sunday, April 3, 2005 8:28 AM ...I just went through a "new problem" resulting from daylight saving time and....living in Indina....wife walked into the office here and looked at my regulator clock on the wall that I just reset, {it had stopped}, wound and restarted....and she panicked when she looked at it...and thought she was way late to get ready for Sunday School....The problem: I had set the clock by my watch....and got it one hour fast...because {living in Indina}, it shouldn't have been moved ahead one hour...BUT, my watch was moved ahead {during the night}, one hour by Boulder Co. {automatic by radio sig.}, and hence now I have to figure out how to back it up one hour....! Quentin Reply Overmod Member sinceSeptember 2003 21,427 posts Posted by Overmod on Sunday, April 3, 2005 8:46 AM To 'cut to the chase' on implementation of DST, go directly to http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html which details the American history of 'summer time'. Interestingly enough, in a sense everybody was right! Originally, nationwide DST was adopted in Germany in 1916 (right country, wrong war, steamerfan), Britain in 1916, and in the USA (along with mandatory standard time) in spring 1918. Unpopular, it was rescinded here in 1919, and only restored nationally as a wartime measure (by that Roosevelt administration) from 1942 to 1945. Then it was rescinded again (as a Federal measure, that is) all the way to the introduction of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S. Code Section 260a, Public Law 89-387) on April 12. Law was revised in 1972, and again in 1986 (which is when DST was made to take effect at 2am the first Sunday in April, and drop at 2am the last Sunday in October. There was also that panic attack during the Nixon Administration, after the oil embargo, when DST was made 'permanent' for 15 months, despite the fact that savings in much of the USA are minimal during November to February. Reply tatans Member sinceMay 2004 4,115 posts Posted by tatans on Sunday, April 3, 2005 8:46 PM Try living here in Siberia South (Canada) in the winter,go to work in the dark and come home in the dark, but further north you can golf at midnight in the summer, daylight saving time here just means it's not quite as long for the sun to come up in the morning (it's still DARK) when you are at work, I'm moving. Reply locomutt Member sinceSeptember 2003 From: Louisville,Ky. 5,077 posts Posted by locomutt on Monday, April 4, 2005 2:39 AM Well to heck with setting clocks ahead or not. Just hope everybody checked the batteries in their "smoke detectors".And if you don't have any,you should.!!!! More important than being late. Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!! Reply spbed Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Austin TX 4,941 posts Posted by spbed on Monday, April 4, 2005 6:24 AM Thanks 4 the heads up. Checked & in working order. [:p][:D] Originally posted by locomutt Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub Reply eolafan Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Aurora, IL 4,515 posts Posted by eolafan on Monday, April 4, 2005 7:43 AM How in hell do you change the time on some of these new fangled car clocks, not to mention VCR's? Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim) Reply tree68 Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Northern New York 24,885 posts Posted by tree68 on Monday, April 4, 2005 7:47 AM QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan How in hell do you change the time on some of these new fangled car clocks, not to mention VCR's? Call in an 8 year old....[:D] Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it... Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 4, 2005 7:57 AM QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy QUOTE: steamerfan: ...the Germans invented it in WW2 to save on fuel oil for the homes...Close, actually it was started during WW1. But you're right in that the Germans were the first to implement it (whether or not they invented it is up for question). Ok ed, ya got me, just heard it as i was passing the room the other day, mentioned germany and The Great War, for some reason i construded that as as WW2. But yes, the implimented it first, then the US thought "hey that's a great Idea!" and without thinking of the consiquences implimented it too, and the world soon followed. Reply Edit spbed Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Austin TX 4,941 posts Posted by spbed on Monday, April 4, 2005 8:43 AM Did you click the box DST on? If you did it should have changed automatically. [:)][:D] Originally posted by tree68 Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub Reply eolafan Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Aurora, IL 4,515 posts Posted by eolafan on Monday, April 4, 2005 12:13 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68 QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan How in hell do you change the time on some of these new fangled car clocks, not to mention VCR's? Call in an 8 year old....[:D] [V] My next best thing is to have my 23 year old son do it for me. He already thinks his old man is a real dumb***so this would simply confirm his suspcisions. He had to help me set the clock on my new sattelite radio in my car (thank God you need only set it once as it automatically keeps time based on the sattelite just like my cell phone). Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim) Reply Join our Community! Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account. Login » Register » Search the Community Newsletter Sign-Up By signing up you may also receive occasional reader surveys and special offers from Trains magazine.Please view our privacy policy More great sites from Kalmbach Media Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Copyright Policy
Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub
QUOTE: steamerfan: ...the Germans invented it in WW2 to save on fuel oil for the homes...
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
Originally posted by locomutt Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub Reply eolafan Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Aurora, IL 4,515 posts Posted by eolafan on Monday, April 4, 2005 7:43 AM How in hell do you change the time on some of these new fangled car clocks, not to mention VCR's? Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim) Reply tree68 Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Northern New York 24,885 posts Posted by tree68 on Monday, April 4, 2005 7:47 AM QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan How in hell do you change the time on some of these new fangled car clocks, not to mention VCR's? Call in an 8 year old....[:D] Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it... Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 4, 2005 7:57 AM QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy QUOTE: steamerfan: ...the Germans invented it in WW2 to save on fuel oil for the homes...Close, actually it was started during WW1. But you're right in that the Germans were the first to implement it (whether or not they invented it is up for question). Ok ed, ya got me, just heard it as i was passing the room the other day, mentioned germany and The Great War, for some reason i construded that as as WW2. But yes, the implimented it first, then the US thought "hey that's a great Idea!" and without thinking of the consiquences implimented it too, and the world soon followed. Reply Edit spbed Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Austin TX 4,941 posts Posted by spbed on Monday, April 4, 2005 8:43 AM Did you click the box DST on? If you did it should have changed automatically. [:)][:D] Originally posted by tree68 Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub Reply eolafan Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Aurora, IL 4,515 posts Posted by eolafan on Monday, April 4, 2005 12:13 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68 QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan How in hell do you change the time on some of these new fangled car clocks, not to mention VCR's? Call in an 8 year old....[:D] [V] My next best thing is to have my 23 year old son do it for me. He already thinks his old man is a real dumb***so this would simply confirm his suspcisions. He had to help me set the clock on my new sattelite radio in my car (thank God you need only set it once as it automatically keeps time based on the sattelite just like my cell phone). Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim) Reply Join our Community! Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account. Login » Register » Search the Community Newsletter Sign-Up By signing up you may also receive occasional reader surveys and special offers from Trains magazine.Please view our privacy policy More great sites from Kalmbach Media Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Copyright Policy
QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan How in hell do you change the time on some of these new fangled car clocks, not to mention VCR's?
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy QUOTE: steamerfan: ...the Germans invented it in WW2 to save on fuel oil for the homes...Close, actually it was started during WW1. But you're right in that the Germans were the first to implement it (whether or not they invented it is up for question).
Originally posted by tree68 Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub Reply eolafan Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Aurora, IL 4,515 posts Posted by eolafan on Monday, April 4, 2005 12:13 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68 QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan How in hell do you change the time on some of these new fangled car clocks, not to mention VCR's? Call in an 8 year old....[:D] [V] My next best thing is to have my 23 year old son do it for me. He already thinks his old man is a real dumb***so this would simply confirm his suspcisions. He had to help me set the clock on my new sattelite radio in my car (thank God you need only set it once as it automatically keeps time based on the sattelite just like my cell phone). Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim) Reply Join our Community! Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account. Login » Register » Search the Community Newsletter Sign-Up By signing up you may also receive occasional reader surveys and special offers from Trains magazine.Please view our privacy policy More great sites from Kalmbach Media Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Copyright Policy
QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68 QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan How in hell do you change the time on some of these new fangled car clocks, not to mention VCR's? Call in an 8 year old....[:D]
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