start three weeks earlier and end a week later<\/a>. Starting with its ending this fall.<\/p>\nExpect your VCR and clocks and anything else that was “high-tech” enough to include a time change based on the long-term dates of DST to get all screwed up when it happens. You’ll have to manually make the change — and then manually undo it.<\/p>\n
Plan to ignore what it says on your calendar this year. And, probably, next year, too, if you buy sixteen-month calendars.<\/p>\n
For computers and other programmable devices, you’ll have to download patches and install them. Expect further fun there.<\/p>\n
And, of course, everything that assumes that Canada and the US are on the same time zone\/daylight savings scheme … will be wrong. Unless the Canadians knuckle under and follow suit. Nice reaching out to the neighbors there, folks.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if Daylight Savings Time is stupid or not — but changing all the clocks twice a year is<\/em>, and arbitrarily changing the date you do it is even more <\/em>stupid.<\/p>\nRrg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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