I’m working on a new analog watch face. I’ve added a 24-hour hand and was testing it to make sure it was all lining up. I do that by starting at 12 midnight (00 hours) and go all the way through the day 1 hour at a time. Well today it was glitching and not showing 2am. The hand would jump from 1 to 3 am every time. I even went so far as to restart the web browser thinking it was having memory leak issues. Then when I clicked on the hour number itself in the time machine to select 2 am instead of using the up arrow I found this.
Then it dawned on me, today in America is the start of Daylight Saving Time. Duh…There is NO 2 am on this day because it skips from 1 to 3 am. 
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Daylight Annoyance Time. 
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DST is the bane of anyone working with any kind of technology, closely followed by timezones and leap years last only because they happen less, but continuously cause some of the most catastrophic failures.
I spent 10 hours repeatedly getting errors trying to install Exchange Server several years ago. I eventually needed sleep and hit the web search again next day, only to find it was because I was trying to do it on Feb 29 and it worked first time on Mar 01.
More recently the entire Microsoft online system domino failed because all of their SSL certificates had be purchased on Feb 29 and were set to expire after 365 days so the main servers failed due to a certificate date error a year later. The first backups kicked in and fell over for the same reason, causing the secondary and then tertiary backups to do exactly the same each time.
And, as one infamous woman pointed out on a video complaint to her state authorities, DST is responsible for global warming because of course that extra hour of sunlight will make things warmer.
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That’s a good one! I have a friend whose birthday is Feb 29, but she makes the most of it. She celebrates her birthday on Feb 28 and March 1. Kind of a “two for one” special. 
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Her other video to authorities is proof that the government sprays chemicals in the air because you can see them in the colours from sprinklers. That can’t be natural, right?
Going back 10 to 15 years so it is kind of lost under the 4/5G and covid conspiracies now.
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Over here those were called “Chemtrails”.
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I’ve had headaches from all three when I was in IT in a previous life!
Although, one of those headaches was happening every year on the last day of February, regardless of leap year… We had some 30 sites across the US, each with its own “Storage Express” backup system from Intel. Every year, all backups would fail on the last day of February. It was a pain.
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Yeah, didn’t want to use the word outright, even though the correct term is ‘condensation’ or ‘water vapour’.
There is some speculation in respected circles though that this could have environmental impacts over time on the weather by introducing small changes to the upper atmosphere but tests only started just before lockdowns so have been hindered by reduced flights.
There is just not enough data yet.
To visit my family by plane costs £150-£180 return with hold luggage (300 miles). It takes me an hour and a half on the bus to get to the airport then 2-3 hous to get through for a 45 minute flight and my folks have to drive 45 minutes to pick me up and the same back assuming no delays (4 hour delay on the way back last time due to lorry crash)
Train used to cost £350 minimum, now same price of flight and no extra baggage cost. 4.5-5 hour train journey, 1-2 changes. 30 minute bus to station. No security check backlogs, Grab a taxi or bus at the other end.
Win Win on the footprint but why did it take so long for trains to match flight prices to get people to travel responsibly in the UK when the rest of Europe and Asia have been doing it for decades.
Off topic I know but I will loosely cling to Chemtrails.
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Mrantisocialguy, this is your second post that made my day… can’t stop laughing…
The first one was “[I Wonder Some Days Why I Accept Requests]” - legendary!
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I’ll be here all week. Please tip your server!
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There’s a fly in my soup 
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OK, but I would not complain. The cook is a Soup Nazi.
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If you really want a headache… 2 states in the US do not participate in Daylight Savings Time… Hawaii and Arizona.
Imagine how difficult it is for them to find electronic devices that work for them in the US.
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Remember the old LED clock radios where once a year you had to advance them 23 hours because there was no back option?
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You mean the ones you had to advance 47 hours because you missed the first time?! 
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who’z you calling old! mine still does that… 
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If it makes you feel any better, I recently read a news article that several states and provinces (BC/Alberta/California/Washington) on the west coast have all passed laws for permanent daylight savings time. The only reason why things haven’t changed yet is we are all waiting on a few more to get aligned so we’ll all be consistent and it won’t be a big clusterf@#$ck. So probably within a couple of years.
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Indiana where I’m at when I was younger was one on those states. It was really nice in the area I live in. During DST we were an hour behind Louisville KY and if we missed something on TV we could tune into a Terre Haute IN TV station and watch it an hour later. During standard time we were on the same time as Louisville KY and could do the same thing except instead of watching it early on those stations, when we missed it we could watch the hour later than us Terre Haute stations for it. Then former Governor (Not My Man) Mitch Daniels just had to be like every other state. I still haven’t forgiven him over that! 
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I just read that Senator Rubio from Florida has just submitted a bill in the U.S. senate that would put all of the U.S. on DST permanently with no more time changes. I’m all for that!
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