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Daylight savings time comes early this year (and will end later). I heard only pretty new computers have the new date programmed in for automatic changeover.

So, don't forget next Saturday night/Sunday morning when you're changing all your regular clocks, to change your computer clock, too.

Or you can let everything keep flashing 12:00 and not worry about it at all.
 
I think that almost everyone who is connected to the internet will have their internal clocks sets by the server. My Mac checks in with one once a day and synchronizes my time/date stamp with the Naval Observatory (or a strange little man in Saskatoon, I can’t remember).

And, if not, you can always change the clock manually.

I know I am going to have to change my credit card terminal manually. If I can remember correctly, it doesn’t update automatically.

I keep forgetting: is it Spring forward and March to the rear, or what?
 
You ALWAYS lose an hour sleep no matter which way you put the clock.

I checked my Windows Time and Date Properties and I can have it synchronize with an internet time server. But it said the last synchro was 2/27 and the next scheduled sychro was 3/6. Nothing I saw let me set how often it gets synchronized.

.....Just checked windows help and it said the time gets sychronized once a week.
 
Losing and regaining that hour twice a year is bad enough, but over here the clocks go back/forward at 2 a.m. why do they make us stay up so late to do it?
 
I know Apple released an OS upgrade to fix the early change to DST.

I don't lose any sleep over the clock change. Get this: I change them before I go to bed, even though the law says 2am. In many years of doing this, no one has ever turned me in. I suppose if you try to change your computer clock early though, the government will be able to pick that up through some warrantless ISP tap.
 
Richard Darling said:
I don't lose any sleep over the clock change. Get this: I change them before I go to bed, even though the law says 2am. In many years of doing this, no one has ever turned me in. I suppose if you try to change your computer clock early though, the government will be able to pick that up through some warrantless ISP tap.
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Pssst, Richard.....I got a new pillow today. Tonight, I'm going to remove the tag under penalty of law. We're living dangerously today, aren't we? Such rebels we are!!

Okay, if you guys don't hear from me for a few days, look for me in Pillow Tag jail, having been picked up by the Pillow Tag Police. They're probably in the same office as the Daylight Savings Time Clock-Changers Police.
 
Of course the Mac will fix the time. Macs are brilliant. Not so for my 2 year old bedside clock with the new added feature of adjusting to daylight saving's time. It was advertised at Target as the clock you never have to change time on again. Not until Bush changed the date, that is. It will probably never work again. Let's not go there...
 
PC XP users should have received the update last year. Here's a handy page to check and make sure your pc is ready for this weekend, and a fix if not.

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst

Mike
 
RoboFramer said:
Losing and regaining that hour twice a year is bad enough, but over here the clocks go back/forward at 2 a.m. why do they make us stay up so late to do it?
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So the pubs don’t close early........as if I’m bothered…..I don’t even drink….

BTW day light change over is different in this part of the world to the US

Dublin Ireland
DST starts on Sunday, 25 March 2007, 01:00 local standard time
DST ends on Sunday, 28 October 2007, 02:00 local daylight time

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=78
 
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