Changing Registry to use 64 bit WIndows better

[Char Jackson]

One time a number of years ago, during one of the times time when Daylight
Saving Time was being extended because of a fuel crisis, Oliphant published
a great cartoon, showing someone doing just that. Now I know where he got
it - thanks!

I pretty much hate DST, which is one reason I liked that cartoon and will
never forget it

I live in the Central time zone and would absolutely love it if we had
DST year round. My brother lives in the Mountain time zone and full
time DST would benefit him even more than it would benefit me.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I live in the Central time zone and would absolutely love it if we had
DST year round. My brother lives in the Mountain time zone and full
time DST would benefit him even more than it would benefit me.

I really prefer standard time, but I'd take full-time DST over changing
twice a year

My prejudice against DST comes especially from my teen years in Buffalo,NY,
when I was interested in photography and astronomy.

1. My darkroom wasn't light-tight, so I couldn't use it until it was dark
outside.

2. The night sky wasn't visible until it was dark outside.

3. Summer sunsets are pretty late anyway at Buffalo's latitude and
longitude, and DST doesn't help.

 

[Char Jackson]

My prejudice against DST comes especially from my teen years in Buffalo,NY,
when I was interested in photography and astronomy.

1. My darkroom wasn't light-tight, so I couldn't use it until it was dark
outside.

2. The night sky wasn't visible until it was dark outside.

3. Summer sunsets are pretty late anyway at Buffalo's latitude and
longitude, and DST doesn't help.

I see your point. I never lived that far east.

 

[Ken Blake]

I see your point. I never lived that far east.

How far east you live doesn't matter. What matters is where you live
in your time zone. And the farther east you live in your time zone,
the *earlier* sunset is.

 

[relic]

I see your point. I never lived that far east.

North. ...that far north.

 

[Char Jackson]

How far east you live doesn't matter. What matters is where you live
in your time zone. And the farther east you live in your time zone,
the *earlier* sunset is.

I meant within my time zone. I've always lived much closer to the
western edge of my time zone than Buffalo appears to be to the western
edge of its time zone.

I'm probably still wrong, but there you have it.

 

[Char Jackson]

North. ...that far north.

True, not that far north, either.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I meant within my time zone. I've always lived much closer to the
western edge of my time zone than Buffalo appears to be to the western
edge of its time zone.

I'm probably still wrong, but there you have it.

Also, it's not the distance from the edge of the time zone, it's the
distance from the center of the time zone that matters.

And one more item: the farther you are from the equator, the more extreme
the variation of sunrise and sunset times over the year.

So Buffalo is pretty far north, as well as pretty far west of the center of
the time zone.

Well, I had a burst of honesty & looked at a map. Buffalo is at almost 43N
and 79W. It's only four degrees west of the center (75W), and the canonical
edge would be at 82.5W, so it's not very far west of the centerline (about
16 minutes of time). But I also lived near Boston, with a similar latitude
and a longitude about 71W. So that made me think Buffalo was farther west
than it is, for which I apologize. The ~eight degrees would make a
difference of about a half hour in rise-set times between the two cities,
with Buffalo being later.

 

[Char Jackson]

Also, it's not the distance from the edge of the time zone, it's the
distance from the center of the time zone that matters.

And one more item: the farther you are from the equator, the more extreme
the variation of sunrise and sunset times over the year.

So Buffalo is pretty far north, as well as pretty far west of the center of
the time zone.

Well, I had a burst of honesty & looked at a map. Buffalo is at almost 43N
and 79W. It's only four degrees west of the center (75W), and the canonical
edge would be at 82.5W, so it's not very far west of the centerline (about
16 minutes of time). But I also lived near Boston, with a similar latitude
and a longitude about 71W. So that made me think Buffalo was farther west
than it is, for which I apologize. The ~eight degrees would make a
difference of about a half hour in rise-set times between the two cities,
with Buffalo being later.

Probably more than I needed to know, but interesting nevertheless.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Probably more than I needed to know, but interesting nevertheless.

Yeah, I do have this habit of going on at length...

Feel free to click your newsreader's 'next post' button at any time.

Just don't tell me

 

[Allen]

I see your point. I never lived that far east.

My worst experience with DST was in the summer of 1954, when I was a
draftee and stationed in Pittsburgh. It seems that back then SDT was a
local option in Pennsylvania--by township! For those who don't know, a
township is a tract that is for miles by four miles, which resulted in
such ridiculous messes as two points across the street from each other,
or even in the same block on the same side of the street could have a
one-hour time difference. A real mess for bars and mandatory closing
hours. Another weird thing during WW II in the US, for a short period:
DST was year long, and summers were on double DST. My favorite metaphor
for DST was credited to a Native American, who described as "cutting a
foot off one end of a blanket and sewing it one the other end". Almost
certainly apocryphal, but so, so true.
Allen

 

[Char Jackson]

My worst experience with DST was in the summer of 1954, when I was a
draftee and stationed in Pittsburgh. It seems that back then SDT was a
local option in Pennsylvania--by township! For those who don't know, a
township is a tract that is for miles by four miles, which resulted in
such ridiculous messes as two points across the street from each other,
or even in the same block on the same side of the street could have a
one-hour time difference. A real mess for bars and mandatory closing
hours. Another weird thing during WW II in the US, for a short period:
DST was year long, and summers were on double DST. My favorite metaphor
for DST was credited to a Native American, who described as "cutting a
foot off one end of a blanket and sewing it one the other end". Almost
certainly apocryphal, but so, so true.
Allen

I'm a bit of a night owl, typically going to bed around 3-4 AM and
getting up around 9-10 AM, so moving things around to get extra
daylight in the morning is wasted on me, but extra daylight in the
evening is extremely welcome. As far as I'm concerned, we could cut 6
hours of daylight from the morning and sew it to the evening.

My favorite DST story is the one where the lady (covered on one of the
nightly news shows, IIRC) who was screaming that it was God's time and
it was not in our domain to be messing with God's time. I thought that
was pretty humorous, but she was totally freaked that bad things would
happen if we humans messed with things.

Fortunately, Windows is fairly good at keeping track of time changes,
to bring this sort of back on topic.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

My favorite DST story is the one where the lady (covered on one of the
nightly news shows, IIRC) who was screaming that it was God's time and
it was not in our domain to be messing with God's time. I thought that
was pretty humorous, but she was totally freaked that bad things would
happen if we humans messed with things.

Historically, there was a lot of just that kind of thinking (reacting,
really) in the mid-19th century, when the railroads' speed of travel and
need for useable train schedules made evident the need for standard time. I
guess the telegraph added to that as well. Anyway, if you were a few
degrees from the center of a time zone, you'd have to add or subtract time
from the sundial reading to conform to standard time.

Although it's not as evil as DST, it's definitely not God's own time

And why are network programs shown at "9PM (8 Central)"? I never understood
that...

 

[Bob I]

Historically, there was a lot of just that kind of thinking (reacting,
really) in the mid-19th century, when the railroads' speed of travel and
need for useable train schedules made evident the need for standard time. I
guess the telegraph added to that as well. Anyway, if you were a few
degrees from the center of a time zone, you'd have to add or subtract time
from the sundial reading to conform to standard time.

Although it's not as evil as DST, it's definitely not God's own time

And why are network programs shown at "9PM (8 Central)"? I never understood
that...

You mean as opposed to "8PM (9 Eastern)"?

 

[Char Jackson]

And why are network programs shown at "9PM (8 Central)"? I never understood
that...

I remember, as a young kid, hearing the phrase, "News at 11!" and
wondering why on earth there would be news at 11, right in the middle
of Johnny Carson?

 

[Dave]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:04:01 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: snip

And why are network programs shown at "9PM (8 Central)"? I never
understood
that...

I wondered this quite a few years ago and the reason I was given is that the
first three networks were in New York so all programming was broadcast from
the eastern time zone. Probably dates back to the radio days.
Another thing I wondered about back then was why the area of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and etc. is called the "Mid-west?" If you look at a map it is
probably "East-central" or something like that.
On topic, they had squeaking doors, green lanterns, but no Windows on the
radio. :-D
Dave

 

[Dave]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:44:24 -0500, Allen <[email protected]> snip
My favorite DST story is the one where the lady (covered on one of the
nightly news shows, IIRC) who was screaming that it was God's time and
it was not in our domain to be messing with God's time. I thought that
was pretty humorous, but she was totally freaked that bad things would
happen if we humans messed with things.

She's probably right, look at what is in Congress and Al Qaida. Talk about
some screwed up humans. :-D

Fortunately, Windows is fairly good at keeping track of time changes,
to bring this sort of back on topic.

It's even gotten pretty good at keeping correct time. Remember when you used
to have an add-on program that would access the Naval Observatory for
correct time and update your system clock? I guess it's built in now as it
keeps time dead on now.
Dave

 

[Ken Blake]

Another thing I wondered about back then was why the area of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and etc. is called the "Mid-west?" If you look at a map it is
probably "East-central" or something like that.

I assume that the term dates back to the days when that area *was* the
mid-west.

 

[Char Jackson]

It's even gotten pretty good at keeping correct time. Remember when you used
to have an add-on program that would access the Naval Observatory for
correct time and update your system clock? I guess it's built in now as it
keeps time dead on now.
Dave

In XP, if you double click on the clock in the system tray, or open
its Properties, there's a tab named Internet Time. Vista and 7
probably have the same thing. I think the default is to synchronize
the local PC with an Internet server once a week, but I increased mine
to once an hour. Overkill, but there's virtually no overhead.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

You mean as opposed to "8PM (9 Eastern)"?