Does anyone really know what time it is?
The Fox 7 Austin 5 a.m. Monday morning newscast began normally enough,
with a word or two about the weather, and stories about the usual weekend
mayhem. Over it all was the usual little time and temperature bug showing
the temperature (61 degrees) and the time: 5:00, 5:01, 5:02, and so forth.
The problem?
It was actually 4 a.m. Central Standard Time. Daylight time does not begin
until next Sunday morning, March 14, which is the second Sunday in March,
as prescribed by law.
About ten minutes into the newscast evidently someone realized something was
wrong. They cut away from the anchor in mid-sentence and put up a spate of
commercials and programming promos which the wrong-time and temperature bug
continued to rotate over it all. Eventually programming resumed with COPS
reruns, the usual fare for the 4 a.m. Monday hour.
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Lars Eighner Warbama's Afghaninam day: 96
2313.5 hours since Warbama declared Viet Nam II.
Warbama: An LBJ for the Twenty-First century. No hope. No change. |
