Re: Daylight Savings Time

"Christina Websell" <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
jmcquown wrote:
For those in areas who have this weird clock change, don't forget to
"Spring Forward". Daylight Savings Time kicks in at 2AM tomorrow
morning. I also heard on the news, next year they plan to increase
it by 4 weeks. So, in their infinite wisdom, the powers that be will
render useless anything that automatically takes the time change into
consideration and updates your clock for you.

Jill

We did our "spring forward" last week and my video recorder and computer
magically updated themselves.
I'm sure that if your time change is delayed it will be taken into
consideration.

It's just an issue in the US, but I assume things like computers and
cell phones, which can synchronize time over a network and download
software patches will be fine. Some inconvenience might come from
digital watches and VCRs with DST dates hard coded into them.

This reminds me of a funny thing that once happened to me when I had
Windows 95. I was working late on my computer one weekend, and it
prompted me that it was setting the clock back because of DST. I just
clicked OK. The message kept popping back up every hour, and as I was
getting tired, just kept clicking OK. I didn't realize that anything
was wrong until I noticed that the sun was rising even though the
computer still said it was 2 AM. Windows 95 had tricked me into
staying up all night.

.

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