I tried to leave a comment over at Matty's place, but apparently Blogger hates me. She has a post about Daylight Savings Time.
Me, I hate it. Just when I can see the sun starting to peek over the horizon when I get to work, they change the time and I am plunged back into the darkness. The only thing that DST does for us is to make it hard to get to sleep since it is still daylight when we go to be (in the middle of summer), the rest of the time, it just fucks with my sleep schedule (and the dogs' schedule - which means my schedule is doubly screwed).
Anyway, don't forget to change your VCR (then change it again in a couple of weeks when it thinks it is time to change), your older computers (my laptop will have to be changed twice also), PDA (twice - again), cell phone (I think ours are new enough that they get time from the sattelite), Answering machine (twice) and God knows what else.
Oh, and hope that your IT administrator figured out how to change everything at work. We were actually told not to electronically schedule meetings for a couple of days before and a couple of days after the change because all the patches might not work correctly and everyon'e calender could get all screwed up (oh, we're running a Linux server - it's supposed to be sooo much better than MS - NOT).
Oh yeah, I am soooo glad that the government had to go and screw with the established order of things.
Indeed, the time change is a pain for just the reasons you gave.
As far as the computer systems go, WE are on MS (not Linux) and they warned us to keep an eye on EVERYTHING. Schedule meetings, but be warned. With global coverage, and the multiple time zones, everythiong is suspect for at least 2 weeks. Or so they say.
Oh, and THAT warning, it came out almost a month ago. They sent a reminder on it Friday before the end of work.
Posted by: Wichi Dude | March 11, 2007 at 12:55 PM
On the day before the DST change, my annually recurring day-long events (birthdays and anniversaries) suddenly lasted two days on Outlook and my interim appointments (those between then and the "real" DST change) were all an hour late. I manually fixed the problems. Then, yesterday morning, the date and time were correct on the computer clock display, but the interim appointments were, again, an hour late.
Unaccountably, the TREO (which should get its time hacks from the computer) showed the interim appointments as being an hour earlier than is correct. So, I fixed them. Today, they are, again, an hour earlier than is correct.
As to my iPAQ, since I can no longer sync it to my computer (thanks to the TREO software, which required that I remove the ActiveSync version that is used with the iPAQ), a manual reset of the clock fixed any problems it might have had.
Unfortunately, the "established order of things" already included DST (albeit a few weeks earlier/later).
Posted by: Cop Car | March 12, 2007 at 08:47 AM
How frustrating! We were able to download a patch for one computer, and manually reset the other. I still have to learn how to record on the VCR when I am away, so that was a moot point. There's something to being technologically insufficient.... It means you have fewer problems with DST.
Bogie, Dear Husband agrees with you. Just when he's enjoying a little light as he goes to work, they take it away. He's usually home by 5:00 so the extra time at night doesn't do him any good, unless he's painting the boat after work. Just WHAT was the reasoning behind extending DST? It seems to me that we spend more on fuel for early morning lights than we were, so that's a loss in my book.
Posted by: Buffy | March 12, 2007 at 12:01 PM
Cop Car - yep, I could do without the "established" order of things any time.
Posted by: bogie | March 13, 2007 at 04:09 AM