I giggled at your reply because it was normal to get up in the dark and do your chores in the dark when I was growing up in Wisconsin. Have to collect the eggs and milk those cows before daylight... :o) I have heard from relatives of studies where cows were milked 3 times and in some cases, 4 times a day though. I guess that is due to the automated milking systems...




>>>We will update all client computers as well as servers and our MAC machines. Many of our applications are from different vendors to make things more complex for us. We use SQL Server and Oracle as databases. Getting everything in sync is imperative at $36,000 a minute down time.
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>>We are in the same boat. No Macs, but many SQL Servers, plenty of Windows Servers, and Unix, Oracle, etc.
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>>Do we need this crap? Does Congress care?
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>It is times like this that I wish we did not have DST, as is the case in some parts of the country.
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>Just imagine DST instead of starting on the first Sunday of April, will begin the second Sunday of March.
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>That is reminiscent of 1973 when president Nixon pushed for something similar to save energy. Mothers protested, as it was dark when kids went to school. The administration admitted that we ended up using 5% more energy so they dropped what we affectionately called “Nixon Daylight Savings Time”.
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>Remember the purpose of all politicians is to do something – anything- so you know they are “representing you”! :)