Re: [BLUG] Did ATT mess up your cell phone, too?

No, silly. Clocky the robot clock!
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~nanda/projects/clocky.html
--
Jordan Thevenow-Harrison
jtth@jtth.net

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 13:28, Steven Black<blacks@indiana.edu> wrote:
> Jordan: Clocky? Is that a name for a pet rooster?
>
> -- Steven Black
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:29:30AM -0400, Jordan Thevenow-Harrison wrote:
>> Yeah, this happened to me. Luckily my Clocky woke me up at the right
>> time. It seems like someone must have actively changed something to
>> make this happen. Also, liabilities?
>> --
>> Jordan Thevenow-Harrison
>> jtth@jtth.net
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:26, Barry Schatz<sorbetninja@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Who in the Bloomington area noticed that their cell phone had the wrong
>> > time? I woke up and noticed that my cell phone (which serves as my alarm
>> > clock) was an hour behind my normal clock (a simple clock radio from
>> > Radio Shack). I went to my computer and tried date, ntpdate, date again,
>> > date -u, and I realized that I was late for work.
>> >
>> > My girlfriend and a bunch of people at Cook were affected, and a lot of
>> > people at my job we similarly bothered that the cell tower didn't send a
>> > reliable timestamp. It seems the Bloomington ATT cell tower is on CDT
>> > (GMT-5) instead of EDT (GMT-4). Who else got bit?
>> >
>> > And now, my obligatory rant about timezones. It's (mostly) a joke.
>> > If we did away with timezones, this wouldn't be an issue. No time
>> > changes, no wondering what time it is in another part of the world, and
>> > greatly reduced jetlag would all be benefits. The weather reports
>> > already have sunrise and sunset times, so it can't be that hard to add
>> > in local high noon and midnight times as well. The workday in the
>> > "Eastern" timezone would go from 12:00 through 20:00. Best of all, we
>> > wouldn't have the nasty uptick in driving accidents and fatalities every
>> > Spring when daylight savings time steals an hour.
>> >
>> > -Barry
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