clocks

[Stewy]

Time changes this weekend. Adjust systems accordingly. This message brought to you by all the vile little adult cartoon people. Now back to regular regurgitation.

 

[passtheword]

Time changes this weekend. Adjust systems accordingly. This message brought to you by all the vile little adult cartoon people. Now back to regular regurgitation.

Thanks for that very colorful "heads up".

 

[brettmason]

back in the old days that was a deal. now them puters handle everything

 

[StrayKats]

About 4 or 5 years ago I bought one of those Emerson clock radios which automatically resets the time if the power goes out, a surge happens, ... Unfortunately, the next year, President Bush decided to change the beginning and end of Daylight Savings Time, and for whatever reason the people or computers which should know these things haven't communicated with Emerson, and it still automatically adjusts for (or against) Daylight Savings Time on the Sunday morning when it "should have used ta". Therefore, twice a year I have to unchange the silly thang manually, and then rechange it several weekends later. AHHHH, technology at its finest.

 

[Stewy]

back in the old days that was a deal. now them puters handle everything

Exactly why I put this up Brett. Not everyone has a system like yours nor do they necessarily have your expertise on the settings.

 

[keem]

It's Daylight Saving, not Savings.
That is all. Carry on.

 

[jobhunter]

and it's TWENTY-TEN (2010) not TWO-THOUSAND-AND-TEN

you didn't say NINETEEN-THOUSAND-NINETY-NINE you said NINETEEN-NINETY-NINE

I am done.

 

[TNM]

I bought my clock at K-marts.

 

[BlueWanderer]

About 4 or 5 years ago I bought one of those Emerson clock radios which automatically resets the time if the power goes out, a surge happens, ... Unfortunately, the next year, President Bush decided to change the beginning and end of Daylight Savings Time, and for whatever reason the people or computers which should know these things haven't communicated with Emerson, and it still automatically adjusts for (or against) Daylight Savings Time on the Sunday morning when it "should have used ta". Therefore, twice a year I have to unchange the silly thang manually, and then rechange it several weekends later. AHHHH, technology at its finest.

If you are talking about the 2006 model of Emerson Research digital clocks with the blue numbers, then I have one of those. It's a nice clock outside of that whole daylight saving time mess.

and it's TWENTY-TEN (2010) not TWO-THOUSAND-AND-TEN

you didn't say NINETEEN-THOUSAND-NINETY-NINE you said NINETEEN-NINETY-NINE

I think it's a habit left over from the last decade for people to say "Two Thousand (and) Ten" instead of saying "Twenty-Ten". When 2001 came around, that's when people continue to say "Two Thousand" as part of the year. Saying "Twenty-Oh-One" sounded stupid, so that's why the "Oh" part never caught on especially with the news media. Calling the year 2001 "Twenty-Zero-One" sounds nerdy so that's why that didn't also caught on. You couldn't just say "Twenty-One" because that's reserved for the year 21.

Although, now you notice some news media starting to switch back and now say "Twenty-Ten". Personally, I'm tired of hearing "Two Thousand" and I hope everyone does switch over saying "Twenty" as part of the year soon. "Twenty-Ten" sounds much cooler than "Two Thousand (and) Ten".

 

[Mario500]

I actually prefer to say "two-thousand" when pronouncing a year, as it's more natural, futuristic, and helpful in building sentences due to the longer year pronunciations. It's also an interesting change from the pronunciation of years before 2000. I noticed not everyone in broadcasting adapted this pronunciation in 2001 (Charles Osgood, the host of "CBS News Sunday Morning", is a good example) and more broadcasters began adapting the use of "twenty" last year in advance of 2010.

As for why some folks say "daylight savings time", I can think of three reasons:

"Daylight-saving time" may sound awkward to some folks.
"Daylight-savings" is a shorter pronunciation.
The hyphen is often left out of "daylight-saving time".

 

[jrjackson]

and it's TWENTY-TEN (2010) not TWO-THOUSAND-AND-TEN

you didn't say NINETEEN-THOUSAND-NINETY-NINE you said NINETEEN-NINETY-NINE

I heard people say nineteen-ninety-nine when it was nineteen-hundred-ninety-nine, But, when its 19099, i will have retired, but from my nursing home room i'll broadcast Hank Sr. music, which will still be popular and I'll say Nineteen-thousand-ninety-nine, cause that's what I learned on this thread about clocks, I mean, saying the current year.

 

[cceng1]

The new XDS Satellite receivers has a software flaw which delayed a program recorded on Saturday (before DST went into effect) to be played back after DST started on Sunday to be delayed an hour.....it happened to stations all over the country this morning...they are getting a new version of the software ready to download to the receivers as I type...

cceng

 

[gr8oldies]

Have a car dealer in Cincinnati that talks about buying an OH-TEN model.

 

[brettmason]

there are car dealers in Dothan selling oh-ten models.

I guess technically that is correct? there is a 0 before the 10.