OT: System Clock Loses Hour

[Atrocities]

there is a problem and microsoft does NOTHING to fix it.

[Baron Munchausen]

Atrocities said:
there is a problem and microsoft does NOTHING to fix it.

Actually, there is a problem because Microsoft tried to fix something. This is typical. The 'fix' for the animated cursor attack is known to break some software packages. They released it anyway because they were under a lot of pressure to 'do something' about this security hole. They are probably frantically scurrying around in their bureaucracy right now, trying to figure out how to fix the DST thing properly.

[Fyron]

Geeze.. you guys will take any opportunity you can to bash MS. It's not appropriate in threads where people are genuinely trying to get help; take it elsewhere.

[Baron Munchausen]

We are just noticing that there is no help to be had -- not entirely off topic.

[Will]

Perhaps it is the BIOS system clock that is off? Maybe your hardware is trying to be too smart and compensating for DST, while the DST patch doesn't know how to deal with it.

Long shot, but if you've already tried everything else...

[Santiago]

If it wasn't for windows, third party software mfg's would have nothing to bash to be able to push their own products and little incentive to make anything better.

As for the time problems, I have had no problems on 4 pc's with the DST update so I'm sorry to be of little help. Plus I don't have the time displayed.

Also I have retreated from keeping track of time per se. I don't wear a watch anymore, eat when I'm hungry not at some arbitrary time set by some clock , ie Noon. I sleep when I'm tired, get up if it's daylight out. My internal biotime has always served me well by waking me a few minutes before the alarm, so I don't use alarm clocks anymore. I don't miss my flights and I'm very relaxed nowadays. And generally feel better for it.

[douglas]

Your reference frame. To do meaningful calculations in any situation where relativity has a significant impact you will at some point simply have to arbitrarily define what is at rest. You can choose absolutely anything you want, it will all work out correctly regardless, but you have to pick something.

[Possum]

Hehehe, read this and had to chuckle.

Yes, it's the change in daylight savings time, but that's not why I'm snickering.

I'm snickering because 98SE doesn't have this problem at all. I set time to PDT manually on the new day. On the usual day, I fired up my bawx, and 98SE politely said, "Hey, boss, it's time to set the clock ahead. You want me to do that?"

I replied "no", and that was the end of it

Why, why, why are more sophisticated mechanisms, (and there can be no doubt that XP is far more advanced and sophisticated than 98SE), always more subject to quirky little problems like this?

[Possum]

douglas said:
Your reference frame. To do meaningful calculations in any situation where relativity has a significant impact you will at some point simply have to arbitrarily define what is at rest. You can choose absolutely anything you want, it will all work out correctly regardless, but you have to pick something.

Somewhere, the shade of Herr Doktor Werner Karl Heisenberg is laughing heartily

[AngleWyrm]

How about a squirrel busily gathering nuts? I'm at rest relative to that.

Energy of squirrel = M*** of nuts times Chewing velocity. Squared.

Cause everyone should have a square meal.

narf poit chez BOOM said:
One thing I've wondered is, if mass is partially relative to the speed of light, what is the speed of light relative to?

That'll probably come up again with lots of jargon in it, if/when we break the light-speed barrier.

"Just cause it got from here to there and back before light did, doesn't mean it was actually travelling faster than light. Relative to itself, the photons experienced phase shifting dopplar blahzidy blah effects, so really it's not going faster. Einstein be praised!"