Daylight Savings Time TONIGHT!

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For those of you in most of the US (and in countries that follow Daylight Savings Time), this is a reminder that it will be arriving three weeks earlier than usual and sticking around for an extra week at the end. The US Congress, in its infinite wisdom, passed a law in 2005 stating that DST will be expanded starting in 2007. So, instead of moving your clocks forward an hour (Spring Ahead) on the first Sunday in April, it will happen on the second Sunday in March.

 

Hopefully your computer will have received whatever update or patch it needs from Microsoft/Apple/Red Hat, but in case you don't grab updates, please remember that at 2:00 AM on Sunday, March 11, 2007 it will become 3:00 AM. This means that all sims will be starting "an hour late" or later than a week earlier, so you might find yourself showing up an hour early for scheduled events.

 

If you don't have your PC (or home clocks or personal body clocks) adjusted, you will be off an hour early until April 1, when all of the non-updated machinery will switch over, thinking it will be the time change. If you really want to get yourself confused, remember that you can always manually update your devices on 3/11 to conform for these three weeks. However, your equipment may they decide that 4/1 is the time to move forward and hour and then all of your scheduling devices will be an hour Ahead!

 

What is the moral of the story? Software patches are good, being aware of what time it is SUPPOSED to be is good, the US Congress is... well, you decide.