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change their clocks | What do people often have trouble remembering to do for DST? |
multiple DST rules | What added complexity do people working across time zones have to keep track of? |
1993 | What year did an accident occur at a German facility with molten steel because of the change to DST? |
one hour | For how much more time was the molten steel supposed to cool when the computer mix-up happened in the German steel facility? |
software developers | Who is responsible for testing and even making changing to computer programs when daylight saving rules change? |
Coordinated Universal Time | What time system do some computer systems use to avoid the issues of changes in local time? |
Unix-based | What type of computer systems use an internal clock based on UTC time? |
weekly | Willett's first suggestion was to change clocks by 20 minutes how often? |
complexity | What drawback would changing clocks gradually add to the process? |
Some clock-shift problems | What could be avoided by changing clocks more gradually more often? |
disadvantages | What does DST inherit from standard time? |
magnify | Does daylight savings sometimes minimize or magnify the drawbacks of standard time? |
two | Usually, it's recommended that we avoid the sun for how many hours before and after noon? |
sun-exposure guidelines | What kind of guidelines become less precise because of DST? |
time zone | When using a sundial, we must adjust the reading to reflect natural discrepancies and the effect of what other influence? |
Richard Meade | What author is credited with explaining the usage of daylight saving time and daylight savings time with an "s" in the English Journal of the (American) National Council of Teachers of English? |
daylight savings time | In 1978, according to Meade, which form of the phrase was more commonly used: daylight saving time or daylight savings time? |
daylight saving time | Which form of the phrase is more common in print publications? |
American Heritage | Joining Merriam-Webster's and the Oxford dictionary, the older form of the phrase without the "s" is still listed first in what dictionary? |
daylight time | Along with "daylight saving" and "daylight savings," what alternate form does Merriam-Webster's include? |
daylight saving | Which term did Willett use in his 1907 proposal to refer to DST? |
summer time | What phrase had replaced daylight saving time by 1911 as Willett's proposal evolved into draft legislation? |
zomertijd | What word do speakers of Dutch use for DST? |
ora legale | What term do Italians use for DST that literally translates as "legal time"? |
solar time | What does the Italian term for their winter time, ora solare, translate to in English? |
The name of local time | What usually changes when a place observes DST? |
standard | What word does American English swap out for "daylight" when referring to time zones? |
Pacific Daylight Time | In American English, what is the equivalent of Pacific Standard Time? |
British Summer Time | When the UK changes their clocks forward in the spring, what do they call the time they're then observing? |
summer | What word is often added to the names of time zones when used in British English? |
spring forward, fall back | What phrase is often used in North America when speaking about DST? |
mnemonic | What is a language like "spring forward, fall back" that acts as a trigger for memory called? |
which direction to shift clocks | What does "spring forward, fall back" help people remember? |
Changes to DST rules | What can cause issues with installed computer systems? |
2007 | What year did DST rules change in North America? |
upgrades | What did many existing computer systems that relied on time zones need because of the DST rule changes? |
email | In addition to calendaring programs, what kind of programs were most impacted by the changes? |
corporate information technologists | Which professionals bore the brunt of the effort to upgrade systems affected by time changes? |
UTC | What system of time do some applications use so they won't have problems with time changes? |
time zone differences | By using UTC, applications get out of adjusting to changes around clock shifts and what other factor? |
operating systems | In addition to individual applications, what modern systems that control the basic functions of a computer typically use UTC? |
internally | Where do computers usually use UTC? |
local time | What time would a computer probably use for the clock display? |
the IANA time zone database | Where do most systems go to get the data they use to calculate local time? |
date/time | What two specific points of data do systems need to figure out to get local time? |
zoneinfo | What's another name for the IANA database? |
historical and predicted clock shifts | The IANA database works by connecting names to what information about the location? |
system maintenance | IANA, or zoneinfo, updates are installed as a part of what ordinary function when changes to DST policy are made? |
TZ | What environment variable defines a location's name? |
timezone-independent epoch time | What format is used to store internal time in systems that use zoneinfo? |
tztab | What's the name of the HP database that's similar to IANA but not compatible with it? |
one | Less sophisticated systems might just support a TZ value with one start rule and how many end rules? |
whenever DST rules change | When must TZ values be changed on an older system? |
time for the eastern United States starting in 2007 | What does the TZ value EST5EDT,M3.2.0/02:00,M11.1.0/02:00 specify? |
all years | What years will a new TZ value apply to? |
older timestamps | What's might a new TZ value mishandle when it changes with new DST rules? |
specifying the name of a location | Similar to systems using zoneinfo, Microsoft Windows calculates DST by doing what? |
when DST rules change | When does the table of rule sets the Windows operating system uses have to be updated? |
two | If your computer runs Vista, what's the maximum number of start and end rules you can have for each time zone setting? |
1987 | If located in Canada somewhere where DST is observed, a system running Vista might mishandle time stamps that are older than what year? |
2006 | On a system running Windows older than Vista, locations in Canada observing DST would only reliably support time stamps from after what year? |
1995 | What single year did Windows 95 use to apply rules to Israel's time changes? |
marked Israel as not having DST | Because the schedule in Israel was always changing, what did Microsoft do with the release of Windows 98? |
twice a year | How often would Israeli users running Windows 98 need to manually adjust the time on their machines to stay current? |
The 2005 Israeli Daylight Saving Law | What law regulated the rules for time shifts in Israel according to the Jewish calendar? |
the Gregorian calendar | Although the schedule in Israel became predictable after 2005, there were still problems in Windows until Israel adjusted DST to what calendar in 2013? |
local time | What does Microsoft Windows use internally for its real-time clock? |
a rescue boot disk | Not using UTC, Windows can't multi boot with different versions of itself like you'd need to do to use what kind of disk? |
a single system-wide setting | As opposed to providing support for users to have unique time zone settings, Windows will only allow for what? |
2008 | In what year did Microsoft imply that they would be making changes to support RealTimeIsUniversal in a step towards compatibility with UTC? |
two | Since 2008, at least how many times has Microsoft released fixes for the RealTimeIsUniversal feature? |
NTFS | What file system do recent Windows versions use? |
UTC | Under NTFS, what does Windows use for file time stamps in storage? |
FAT | What file system do most removable devices use? |
current local time | What time will a file be set to if it's copied from the hard disk onto other media? |
permanent daylight saving time | What phrase describes keeping adjusted summer hours year-round? |
time shifts | Proponents of permanent DST say it has all the advantages of regular DST without the issues some people have from what bi-annual occurrences? |
late | In year-round DST, would sunrise happen early or late compared to most places? |
2011 to 2014 | During what time period did Russia use permanent DST? |
winter | In what season in areas observing permanent daylight saving time will it stay dark the latest in the morning? |
westward | In which direction do countries like Russia and Argentina shift their time zones that could be considered all-year DST? |
67 | About how many minutes does Saskatoon, Saskatchewan stay ahead of mean solar time? |
Central Standard Time | What time does Saskatoon observe all year long? |
negative DST | Places like northeast India that shift time zones to the east could be considered to be observing what kind of DST? |
1971 | What year did Ireland and the UK give up on their permanent DST experiment? |
an extra hour | Places like Spain and parts of France effectively go by DST in the winter but add what in the summer? |
three | During the summer in Nome, about how many hours ahead of the sun do they set their clocks? |
Double Summer Time | What term was used in Britain for double daylight saving time? |
Central European Midsummer Time | What's a third name for double daylight saving time or Double Summer Time used in Europe? |
Royal Institute of British Architects | What does RIBA stand for? |
the advancement of architecture | What is the goal of RIBA? |
1837 | When was RIBA founded? |
1971 | When was RIBA's founding document expanded? |
United Kingdom | In what country does RIBA mainly operate? |
Institute of British Architects in London | What was Riba's first name? |
1834 | In what year was the Institute of British Architects founded? |
London | In what city was the Institute of British Architects located? |
Architects | In terms of profession, what were people like Philip Hardwick, William Adams Nicholson and Thomas de Grey? |
the grant of the royal charter | What caused the change of the Institute's name? |
the reference to London | What was removed from the Royal Institute's name? |
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