As an IT guy, Daylight Savings Time is a royal pain. I understand the genesis of it but I think it has long since outlived its usefulness. And when the government changed the weekends of the change (both fall and spring), I believe it caused a lot more actual issues than Y2K. Our minivan clock was set by satellite and was always off by an hour each fall and spring without intervention.
Regardless of the perceived usefulness, we still need to embrace it with all of its glory.
We all know of the usual semi-annual checklist that we do this weekend:
- change batteries in smoke detectors
- change clocks
However, the one that people always seem to forget is setting their clock on their camera. Several times I have to adjust the “digitized time” by an hour for months of pictures at a time for relatives. The importance of this becomes magnified when you have an external GPS. Time is how the data gets applied to the pictures. So instead of just add/subtracting an hour, actually “calibrate” the time so that they exactly match up.
Finally, don’t be late for church…can’t use it for an excuse.