{"id":592,"date":"2005-08-08T18:02:44","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T22:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=592"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:50:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:50:34","slug":"wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/08\/08\/wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/globe\/articles\/2005\/08\/08\/extra_daylight_savings_may_confuse_the_gadgets\/\">Extra daylight savings may confuse the gadgets &#8211; The Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WTF?? We&#8217;re actually going to CHANGE when daylight savings time starts &#038; ends, just to &#8220;save energy?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>WTF?!<\/p>\n<p>First off, daylight savings time is a farce anyway, a stupid tradition that I wish had never started &#8211; but whatever, we&#8217;re stuck with it, and everything&#8217;s been programmed to go along with it.<\/p>\n<p>So, now we&#8217;re going to change it.<\/p>\n<p>ARGH!!! We&#8217;re going to end up spending more money &#038; &#8220;energy&#8221; fixing the problems this causes than we would&#8217;ve saved by staying in daylight savings time for two weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>SO STUPID!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Another story about this stuff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/08\/08\/daylight.saving.ap\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTF?? We&#8217;re actually going to CHANGE when daylight savings time starts &#038; ends, just to &#8220;save energy?&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/simUj-wtf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":832,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/01\/02\/im-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":592,"position":0},"title":"I&#8217;m Back","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I'm back. I'm jet-lagged to all hell (something about completely opposite seasons and that whole daylight savings time thing), but at least this time my luggage arrived with me.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;personal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":855,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/03\/11\/i-hate-daylight-saving-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":592,"position":1},"title":"I Hate Daylight Saving Time","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Spring has always been my least favorite season, and Daylight Saving Time (DST) has been one of the reasons I hate it - I hate loosing an hour of sleep!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Rants&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Rants","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/rants\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":930,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/10\/24\/saving-energy\/","url_meta":{"origin":592,"position":2},"title":"Saving Energy","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"You might be surprised to hear it, but I do try to conserve energy and resources wherever I can.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;society&quot;","block_context":{"text":"society","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/society\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":818,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/12\/01\/seriously-mother-nature-wtf\/","url_meta":{"origin":592,"position":3},"title":"Seriously, Mother Nature, WTF","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 1, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, it's December 1st and it's 65 degrees out. Seriously. WTF?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;personal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":669,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/10\/27\/wtf-snow\/","url_meta":{"origin":592,"position":4},"title":"WTF Snow?!","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 27, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Gotta love Autumn in New England, eh?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;personal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1175,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/06\/14\/copyright-cops-wtf\/","url_meta":{"origin":592,"position":5},"title":"Copyright Cops?? WTF!?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Yep, that's right. H.R. 4279, the \"Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property\" Act would create a \"Intellectual Property Enforcement Division\" within the office of the Deputy Attorney General. Because this is clearly what we need - a police organization to enforce intellectual property rights in our own country. 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