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Mar. 16th, 2009 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pebblerockerI had everything planned, I had it all set up, I was going to watch the Discovery shuttle launch. I'd already been through it all and hurried home only to find that the shuttle had a leak and the launch had been delayed. But today everything was going according to schedule. I was refreshing the website often to check for updates or delays. Launch is scheduled for 7:43pm and my special world time Firefox add-on says it's 6:50pm in America. I refresh the page one more time and there's an update saying Discovery has cleared the tower.
A pox on FoxClocks. A pox on everyone. What's the point of downloading a special thing to tell me what time it is everywhere in the world, if it doesn't bother about minor details like daylight savings? Am I supposed to download it and install it again every time there's a time zone change anywhere in the world? It worked brilliantly for the first few months. It was so much more convenient than the world time zone website - I had to think of the name of a city in the zone I wanted to know about instead of just looking it up by country or on a map. FoxClocks should come with a warning on it. Pox, pox, pox.
The most reliable method is still to have someone from America on MSN who is online often and doesn't mind being pestered about the time. I've been late to a few gaming sessions from stupid daylight savings as well.
A pox on FoxClocks. A pox on everyone. What's the point of downloading a special thing to tell me what time it is everywhere in the world, if it doesn't bother about minor details like daylight savings? Am I supposed to download it and install it again every time there's a time zone change anywhere in the world? It worked brilliantly for the first few months. It was so much more convenient than the world time zone website - I had to think of the name of a city in the zone I wanted to know about instead of just looking it up by country or on a map. FoxClocks should come with a warning on it. Pox, pox, pox.
The most reliable method is still to have someone from America on MSN who is online often and doesn't mind being pestered about the time. I've been late to a few gaming sessions from stupid daylight savings as well.
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Date: 2009-03-16 05:49 am (UTC)