When I was in college, I always thought it was unfair that “Spring Forward, Fall Back” meant that you gained the extra hour in the Fall and lost it in the Spring — when it was really in the Spring that you needed an extra hour to catch up with a year’s worth of deferred homework and kegger excess.
I have had an epiphany, though. I know what will drive home networking (whether by Bluetooth or some other standard — knowing Micro$oft, probably the latter). It will be the ability to sync up all the clocks in one’s house to Daylight or Standard Time automatically, without intervention.
Back in the Good Old Days, you had perhaps a clock on your oven, one out in the parlor, and one in each bedroom. Maybe one in the car, but that was always broken.
Now it seems like every widget in the house has a clock on it. And all of them have to be reset when the time changes — except for the PCs, which may or may not reset accurately. And unlike the Good Old Days, when it was an analog knob you could twist one way or the other, every single clock — from your microwave to the one in your car radio to the one in your light timer — has a different interface to changing it.
Now pardon me, while I get up off my rocking chair and chase those damned kids off my lawn again ….