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- - e r i k - - · Oct 24, 2006, 10:44 PM

This image puzzled me:

You go to school on Sundays?

The Godfather · Oct 24, 2006, 10:48 PM

In the atheist world, Sunday is the day you do homework due on Monday.

kmkkid · Oct 24, 2006, 10:49 PM

Sunday is a school night, it's the night before monday, which is a school day, correct?

Friday and saturday nights would be the nights the kids can stay up later, because they have no school the next day.

- - e r i k - - · Oct 24, 2006, 10:49 PM

Ah, I get it. We never had weekend homework when I went to school.

monkeybrain · Oct 24, 2006, 10:58 PM

Parents over here in Taiwan would certainly have to change those settings: most kids are in cram schools until 21:30 and then have to do their homework until about 00:00 everyday.

rickey939 · Oct 24, 2006, 11:26 PM

Where are the 'NN Forum "Time Limit" controls? I could make use of that myself.

Big Mac · Oct 25, 2006, 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -

Ah, I get it. We never had weekend homework when I went to school.

Where in the world did you go to school?

- - e r i k - - · Oct 25, 2006, 12:40 AM

Originally Posted by Big Mac

Where in the world did you go to school?

Norway.

moonmonkey · Oct 25, 2006, 07:03 AM

Some people also go to school on saturday, they need to add the ability to change the school days.

Dakar² · Oct 25, 2006, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -

Norway.

I swear those Scandinavian countries do that just to piss American kids off.

vmarks · Oct 25, 2006, 09:01 PM

Sunday through Friday is the school week in Israel.

moonmonkey · Oct 26, 2006, 05:52 AM

The UAE has Friday off and makes up for it on Sunday (I think)

Oisín · Oct 26, 2006, 06:10 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar²

I swear those Scandinavian countries do that just to piss American kids off.

Yup, we do

(No, actually, we had lots of weekend homework, and still do. I think it’s just those silly commie Norwegians

)

Sunday through Friday is the school week in Israel.

Perhaps the ‘school night’ option is done differently if you choose Israel as your location?

Kevin · Oct 26, 2006, 06:37 AM

Originally Posted by kmkkid

Sunday is a school night, it's the night before monday, which is a school day, correct?

Friday and saturday nights would be the nights the kids can stay up later, because they have no school the next day.

Amazing about that common sense thing.

moonmonkey · Oct 26, 2006, 07:24 AM

Originally Posted by Oisín

Perhaps the ‘school night’ option is done differently if you choose Israel as your location?

Where do you choose your geographical location in the OS?

Dakar² · Oct 26, 2006, 07:25 AM

Date & Time

moonmonkey · Oct 26, 2006, 07:27 AM

Time zones are mostly longitudinal and don't reflect cultural differences.

For instance Hong Kong is on Beijing time, but with totally different working days.

Dakar² · Oct 26, 2006, 07:31 AM

It's also psychic.

moonmonkey · Oct 26, 2006, 07:33 AM

Time zones or Beijing?

Dakar² · Oct 26, 2006, 07:34 AM

Date & Time

TETENAL · Oct 26, 2006, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by moonmonkey

Time zones are mostly longitudinal and don't reflect cultural differences.

That is true, but regardless of that you pick a location, longitudinal and latitudinal, in Date & Time. You can pick Hong Kong or Beijing there for example. So your Mac knows where it is.

analogika · Oct 26, 2006, 07:46 AM

Either way, it still needs work.

If you're going to an orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn, you might be living in the United States, but still have different school days.

All they need is a "Set school nights..." button which brings up a dialog with seven checkboxes.

Dakar² · Oct 26, 2006, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by analogika

Either way, it still needs work.

If you're going to an orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn, you might be living in the United States, but still have different school days.

That's a long reach you got there.

moonmonkey · 07:55 AM

The OS shouldn't just determine your geographical location and what days you attend school based on what time zone the computer is set to.

Someone may be attending a swiss school in Beijing etc.

The best bet would be to let you configure it directly.

Edit : Just made the same point as analogika, I type too slowly.

Trygve · Oct 26, 2006, 07:52 AM

Some schools here have Fri/Sat off and some Thurs/Fri, some only Fri. A school night depends on your culture.

moonmonkey · Oct 26, 2006, 07:59 AM

Originally Posted by Trygve

Some schools here have Fri/Sat off and some Thurs/Fri, some only Fri. A school night depends on your culture.

Did you notice how Apple forgot Dubai in the date and time control panel?

TETENAL · Oct 26, 2006, 08:05 AM

Originally Posted by moonmonkey

The best bet would be to let you configure it directly.

Or maybe you send your children to bed early every day, like they ought to.

analogika · Oct 26, 2006, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar²

That's a long reach you got there.

Only for someone who's obviously never lived abroad.

analogika · Oct 26, 2006, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Or maybe you send your children to bed early every day, like they ought to.

if the kid has a computer in his room, it's kind of nice to know that he won't be getting up out of bed again at 2:30 a.m. to go fight some weird overlord with his WoW-buddy from Minnesota.

Dakar² · Oct 26, 2006, 08:34 AM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Or maybe you send your children to bed early every day, like they ought to.

Err... why do they need to go to bed early on the weekends?

TETENAL · Oct 26, 2006, 08:41 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar�

Err... why do they need to go to bed early on the weekends?

a) Because instead of them going onto your nerves you want to spend a nice evening with your spouse.
b) If they haven't slept enough they will be crotchety all day during the family weekend excursion.
c) They need to stay used to getting up early since there's school again next monday.

Dakar² · Oct 26, 2006, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

a) Because instead of them going onto your nerves you want to spend a nice evening with your spouse.

Babysitter

Originally Posted by TETENAL

b) If they haven't slept enough they will be crotchety all day during the family weekend excursion.

I take it they're not sleeping in, either?

moonmonkey · Oct 26, 2006, 08:47 AM

probably woken up to go jogging with dad.

analogika · Oct 26, 2006, 09:06 AM

Well, different ages have different needs.

Few kids under the age of 7 sleep in later than 7:30 a.m.

Trygve · Oct 26, 2006, 09:12 AM

Originally Posted by moonmonkey

Did you notice how Apple forgot Dubai in the date and time control panel?

Yeah - they managed to get a few other Gulf cities but not Dubai with by far the largest number of Mac users.

In any case my Mac is always set to GMT to make things easier when I travel since Entourage and iCal can't seem to handle time zone changes.

If I have my clock set to Dubai and make an appointment in ICal for next month at 0900 in San Francisco, then fly to SFO and change my clock, all my appointments change too - useless, So I am always on GMT.

Dakar² · Oct 26, 2006, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by analogika

Well, different ages have different needs.

Few kids under the age of 7 sleep in later than 7:30 a.m.

True, A lot of them get naps during the day, though.

analogika · Oct 26, 2006, 09:18 AM

I wouldn't call that "sleeping in", as per your post above.

Dakar² · Oct 26, 2006, 09:19 AM

No, but it would offset a lack of sleep.

Millennium · Oct 26, 2006, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -

This image puzzled me:

You go to school on Sundays?

My guess is that they'll have to make this setting changeable by locale. For example, unless I'm mistaken France gives students Wednesday off instead of Saturday. In Japan, Saturday is a half-day of classes: only Sunday is a total day off. There are other regions with other timings as well.

TETENAL · Oct 26, 2006, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by Trygve

Entourage and iCal can't seem to handle time zone changes.

If I have my clock set to Dubai and make an appointment in ICal for next month at 0900 in San Francisco, then fly to SFO and change my clock, all my appointments change too - useless, So I am always on GMT.

You know that you can enable time zone support in the iCal advanced preferences? Obviously you would have to first switch to San-Francisco's time zone before entering an appointment at 9 o'clock there.