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Your questions: What are the numbers on your blog? How about ninemillion.org?

After getting back to my regular day job this week (in addition to daylight saving time and time zone work), I found a couple of emails asking…



“What are those numbers at the end of your blog tags?”


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As noted previously, I tracked the increases in references on Live Search when I added a new entry on my blog:



“And here’s an update on the quick search query on Live Search for DST in 2007: there’s now 280,783 results: that’s more than 100,000 additional results added in the last couple of weeks,  with more than 513,000 results (+100K) for DST alone. I’ll go out on a limb and estimate that we eclipse 1,000,000 by March 11, 2007.”


Well, turns out that a search on “daylight saving time” in 2007 tops out today at 804,229 results, with “daylight saving time” topped a million with 1,076,605 today (and the incorect “daylight savings time” at 1,337,264).


(And remember, we ‘fall back’ a week later this year, on November 4th.)


But here’s a number that should get your attention: ninemillion.org. 


You can contribute to ninemillion.org with every search. Each time you search here, Microsoft will contribute to ninemillion.org, a UN agency-led campaign providing education and sports programs for the nine million refugee youth around the world.


You can also add the gadget to your Windows Live Space or Live.com by going here: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=3b452693-c968-4838-bf19-47e3ebf903bd&l=1


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DST Support Central in Redmond, Day 5 – closing down

Live here from the DST Support Central in Redmond… it’s now 5:30 PM in our Redmond facility and all’s well, and we’re closing down our centre here (‘tho support remains live through our regular channels).


We’ve got about 80 people right now on our live DST chat room and we had very few people on our Live Meeting today. As Joris Evers reported today, we saw fewer problems than we planned for (as my Cub Scout son says, “be prepared”):



“The bulk of the problems arose for people who had not updated their computers or had decided to postpone patching to the last minute, according to Microsoft, which created a dedicated “DST Support Central” to help customers. The symptom: clocks running an hour behind because they did not automatically adjust.”


And as I noted, the systems I had the most difficulty with here in the support centre? The analogue clocks in our situation room were wrong at the spring forward.


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Breakfast in Redmond for DST Support Central staff, Day 4

Daylight saving time breakfast today courtesy of the team on site today (thanks, Jason). Pretty full featured omelets bar this morning, served with piping coffee.


 



 


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It’s 2:00… no, make that 3:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time

All of my devices in the DST are now reading 3:00 AM given that we just switched over to daylight saving time here in the Pacific Time Zone (Redmond, to be specific). 

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DST Support Central in Redmond, Day 3

Live here from the DST Support Central in Redmond… it’s now 2:00 AM in our Charlotte facility and all’s well.


We’ve got about 60 people right now on our live DST chat room and we had very few people on our Live Meeting.


Interesting article today on MSN: How people feel about daylight-saving changes



“Americans’ clocks will spring forward three weeks earlier this year (2 a.m. Sunday, March 11), but more than half of Americans (54%) say they’re relaxed and haven’t really thought about the change, a new MSN/Zogby Poll shows.”


          


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