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BUNGIE.NET NOTICE :
Spring Forward, Fall Back
If you didn't already know, the Bungie.net Forums display posts and private messages in Pacific Time. As of now the forums are running in (PDT) Pacific Daylight Time Zone. This Sunday, on November 4, 2007 at 2:00 AM PDT, the clock will fall back to 1:00 AM (PST) Pacific Standard Time. This may cause some minor confusion on the Bungie.net Forums. Please note that the website may not change their time back an hour when prompted on November 4th. But eventually there will be a time change and you will notice some so called "errors" on the forums.
In Simple Terms, This Is What Will Happen
The errors you will notice are not actually errors, but just misplacement of posts and threads for exactly one hour after the time on Bungie.net changes. So examples of this may include the following;
1. You decide to post a thread at 1:10 AM PST, after the time on Bungie.net already changed back an hour. You then go to the front page of the specific forum and do not see your thread. You think that it wasn't posted, but it was actually just put into the forum accordingly with the time. So the threads in which the last post were 1:11 AM PDT to 1:59 AM PDT would be displayed before yours.
2. You decide to post in another user's thread at 1:10 AM PST, after the time on Bungie.net already changed back an hour. Your post may or may not be posted last because if someone posted between 1:11 AM to 1:59 AM before the time change, yours may be put in before theirs. Assuming it is not, then because the last post would be at 1:10 AM, the thread would be lowered to the appropriate time, meaning all threads with last posts between 1:11 AM PDT to 1:59 AM PDT would be displayed before it. In that case, instead of bumping the thread to the top of the page, you would be doing the opposite.
Again, what has been said above is not official and do not quote me on it. This is just an assumption and a notice for everyone so when the time comes, no one starts flipping out. Don't get frustrated with the issue or upset that forums may be a little awkward. If you don't understand what I explained, no worries... just take a break from the Bungie.net Forums for a few hours and maybe get some sleep.
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME INFORMATION :
When In The Morning?
In the United States, clocks change at 2:00 AM local time. In spring, clocks spring forward from 1:59 AM to 3:00 AM; in fall, clocks fall back from 1:59 AM to 1:00 AM. In the European Union, clocks change at 1:00 AM Universal Time. In spring, clocks spring forward from 12:59 AM to 2:00 AM; in fall, clocks fall back from 1:59 AM to 1:00 AM.
In the United States, restaurants and bars have various closing policies. In many states, liquor cannot be served after 2:00 AM. But at 2:00 AM in the fall, the time switches back one hour. So, can they serve alcohol for that additional hour in November? The official answer is that the bars do not stop serving liquor at 2:00 AM, but actually at 1:59 AM. So, they have already stopped serving when the time changes from Daylight Saving Time into Standard Time. In practice, however, many establishments stay open an extra hour in the fall.
In the United States, 2:00 AM was originally chosen as the changeover time because it was practical and minimized disruption. Most people were at home and this was the time when the fewest trains were running. It is late enough to minimally affect bars and restaurants, and it prevents the day from switching to yesterday, which would be confusing. It is early enough that the entire continental United States switches by daybreak, and the changeover occurs before most early shift workers and early churchgoers are affected.
Date Change In 2007
On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday in March and end the first Sunday in November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to resume the 2005 Daylight Saving Time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete.
When We Change Our Clocks
Beginning in 2007, most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 AM on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In the United States, each time zone switches at a different time.
In the European Union, Summer Time begins and ends at 1:00 AM Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). It begins the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in October. In the EU, all time zones change at the same moment.
Some United States Areas
For the U.S. and its territories, Daylight Saving Time is not observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and Arizona . The Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, even in Arizona, due to its large size and location in three states.
Spelling and Grammar
The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.
Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Because of this, it would be more accurate to refer to DST as daylight-saving time. Similar examples would be a mind-expanding book or a man-eating tiger. Saving is used in the same way as saving a ball game, rather than as a savings account.
Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an 's') flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries.
Adding to the confusion is that the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. Daylight Shifting Time would be better, but it is not as politically desirable.
An Important Safety Reminder
Many fire departments encourage people to change the batteries in their smoke detectors when they change their clocks because Daylight Saving Time provides a convenient reminder. "A working smoke detector more than doubles a person's chances of surviving a home fire," says William McNabb of the Troy Fire Department in Michigan. More than 90 percent of homes in the United States have smoke detectors, but one-third are estimated to have dead or missing batteries.