does anyone really know what time it is?

my timing has been off all day and i wasn't sure why, until now. my server's time is off by an hour and i often use it to check my time during work.

now why was my server off. daylight savings time. i do quite a bit of research about trivia and to this day i still have yet to find a legitiamite reason for it.

my favorite quote was from indiana senator's reason why they didn't follow days light savings "why should we change our clocks, the cows and chickens still get up at the same time." unfortunately indiana has since adopted daylight savings.

why is there daylight savings time?

most americans attribute it to benjamin franklin. on a trip to france he noticed that the french got up earlier and slept earlier thereby awake during more daylight hours. but his proposal was for everyone to get up early, all the time.

the fact of the matter is daylight savings is from william willet, golfer who wanted to squeeze in an extra round of after work golf towards dusk in the summer time.

some attribute daylight savings with saving energy. does it? probably not. recent convert, indiana found that energy use went up 1-4% during the summer hours since they adapted it in 2006.

but why is my server off an hour?

before 2007, daylight savings in the states would occur on the last sunday of october. now it happens on the first sunday of november. that is next weekend (boy will the new york marathoners be confused). bush ushered in this change last year. it would be nice to match up with the european daylight savings calendar, but it doesn't.

the fact of the matter is my server is an hour off because i never patched it to adjust for the new daylight savings calendar.

the odd bit of trivia from this year and time is venezuela just moved their time zone 15 minutes ahead just to mess with everyone else. ah, chavez.