Archive for 2008
The summertime is on and have just been enjoying the last sunday of october at the seaside on the beach of flic en flac. Everything seems to be quite good. It was easy to turn the clock by one hour ahead but a little more complicated for the computer. Since there is no update yet by microsoft (a release will be available in dec 08), I have decided to do one for the time being. It was easy to create and yet easier to implement. All you have to do is to download the attached rar and extract it.
Then you just have to execute the reg script, but you will need admin priviledge.
After that, you only have to choose the Option Mauritius in the Time setting of your computer.
This fix works fine under windows Xp, but have not yet been tested in Vista. So if you have tested it, just comment about it.
As from today, 26 October 2008, the Mauritians have advanced their clocks by one hour. This is a result from the application of the daylight saving time (DST). A new initiative from the local government in order to reduce energy consumption in the country.
This concept of DST was introduced by William Willet in 1905. As he pointed out, DST does not change the length of the day but an opportunity to increase outdoor leisure activities during afternoon sunlight hours.
From a personal perspective, I can say that I am adapting to this situation. I wake up at 6.45 am (which would have been equivalent to 5.45 without DST), which is quite early for me. I just hope that it will remain like this through out the mauritius DST period. For a practical use, I did not change my clock at 2.00 am this morning. I did it just before going to sleep. I was planning to sleep from 23:00 till 07:00, so what was the use for me to wake up in the middle of my sleep only to chnage the time. Maybe that was what help me for the adaptation to that mauritian DST. As soon as I changed the clock by 1 hour, I started to feel sleepy.
There are some practical issues from this mauritius DST. Since mauritius was not using any DST in the past and as such there were no DST rules for mauritius. No rules simply mean no implementation into windows. So we need to manually change the timezone, until microsoft include an update for this, which will be in december 2008. Another issue is the use of satellites television. The programmation is normally delayed by exactly 24 hour or sometimes in live. This would normally be a slight shift in 1 hour, but until the 28 of october. After that they will apply their onw DST and there will be a lag of 2 hours.
This is a tranlated article that can be found at http://www.mauscouts.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=34.
The 51st Jamboree on the air (JOTA) and the 12th Jamboree on the internet (JOTI) will be held during the week-end of the 18th and 19th october 2008 through out the world. At mauritius, the jota joti will be at ‘l’Oratorio route nicolay, port louis’.
This event will be under the responsibility of the Mauritius Scout Association (MSA) through its national and international communication commusions and with the collaboration of the 24th Port Louis from Don Bosco Scout Group, who will host the JOTA JOTI in mauritius.
The coordinators of JOTA and JOTi are Malcolm Madelon and Didier Camalboudou respectively.
you can have more information on jota joti at www.jotajoti.org or you can have more information about how to participate on the official website of the mauritius scout association - www.mauscouts.org
