{"id":10241,"date":"2007-03-09T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/03\/09\/daylight-saving-time-this-ones-for-mom.html"},"modified":"2007-03-09T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T22:15:11","slug":"daylight_saving_time_this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/daylight_saving_time_this.html","title":{"rendered":"Daylight Saving Time – This One’s for Mom!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mom asks:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Will the earth stop rotating if we just let our computer change its clock on the “normal” date?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And, of course, it won’t. Your computer may burst into flames and burn down the house, but the Earth’s rotation isn’t contingent on Microsoft OS patching. Yet. <\/p>\n

But if you want simple info on finding out whether your Microsoft patch for DST has already installed (or how to get it to do so painlessly), I offer one and all: The Lazy Person’s Guide to Adjusting Your PC for Daylight Saving.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Not<\/em> that I’m calling you lazy, Mom! But it’s better than pointing to an article on The Idiot’s Guide to …<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mom asks: Will the earth stop rotating if we just let our computer change its clock on the “normal” date? And, of course, it won’t. Your computer may burst…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8880,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/30\/spring_forward.html","url_meta":{"origin":10241,"position":0},"title":"Spring forward","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 30-Mar-06 11:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting Wired article on Daylight Savings Time and the increasing number of tweaks to the system, and, in turn, their risks and impacts. 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