Tough times.

You guys are still taking pictures of the fall colours, but here, we already have snow.

Tough times for the next six months, or so.

I'm looking forward to decent snow, we've had some for the past couple of years. Only snag is that metal cameras get a bit cold in your hands while outside in those conditions!

thin leather gloves... windproof and yet you can still use the camera. And a second battery in an inside pocket

We also already had snow, it's gone warm again for some reason ?!

Bret

Yes. Winter is upon us. The clocks went back last night.
Sainsbury's was heaving, this morning. Seemed like twice the number of people than usual at that time. Had to drive around car park for a while before finding a space. It's like a switch flicks in peoples heads at start of November, and we all go into frantic shopping mode.

BTW... How does my computer know that the clocks went back? - I didn't tell it. It had reset on it's own when I started it up, this morning. Even though I had not yet connected online, so IE couldn't have adjusted it.

your computer knows because the rules are fixed... and therefore it gets told.

And IE is not the be-all and end all; there's something called NTP, running on port 123, which synchronises time. It can request a time without your firewall saying anything unless you've banned it from doing so.

Bret

Im moving.
Ian

Autumn is the best time of the year so many colours and so much to see love it.

I was riding my motorcycle out in the snow yesterday.
Wooo hoo!

Good thing the perma frost hasn't set in yet and the snow melts as it hits the road...

I should really consider getting a snowmobile...

Show off

I'm going to Whistler in January so I hope it carries on snowing...

Whistler is about 2000 miles away from my place. And I wouldn't worry about snow in Whistler. It's there almost year round.

I'm currently looking to book some winter sun.

I HATE snow. Cold I can cope with but snow is just horrible. It looks nice for about 30 minutes while you are indoors, but then you have to go out in it. Cars slipping all over the place, people falling off their bikes, walking difficult due to the slides the kids make. Then it turns to slush, which freezes into sheet ice, which you can neither drive or walk on.... no thanks.

I'm really hoping we get snow again this year! It NEVER snows round here, so last year's snow was brilliant. Even if it did shut Liverpool down for a day.

Windows has had DST adjustment functionality inbuilt since Win 95.
The OS can also auto correct the low-level BIOS date-time (the real-time clock chip on the PC mainboard), directly from the GUI shell.

It operates on the Regional (date-time) settings (ref: Control Panel) being correct - those as selected by the user, usually at OS installation time.
(Timezone [TZ] and localised DST codes info are stored and [re]read from the system Registry)

Countries that stuff around changing their Start and or End dates for daylight saving seasons from 'normal' (declared), also upset Windows, requiring MS to issue an appropriate patch for PCs in that region.

Online connectivity is only needed and utilised to sync (readjust if out of whack, as all clocks do, lose or gain..), the onboard Windows clock with clocks on dedicated Time servers (via time protocol), that in turn keep themselves critically accurate by syncing with atomic clocks.

All fairly simple really. But so useful to have.

OT: Cameras can do the former (read-only from initial D-T/Region/DST fixed User-input settings), but don't have inbuilt Online connectivity yet to take it all to that critical next level. Hopefully soon....... (sounds of me wishing)

Otoh smart cameras, ie. those with proper inbuilt GPS (more drool from me), would/could have that seamless full Time DST syncing capability via the global GPS satellite system.

.R.

I tend to find the roads which nobody has bothered to grit and go for a play. Providing the snow is under 8" or so you can do lovely drifts in a rear wheel drive car, when it gets a bit deeper you can even get a Discovery sliding around nicely!