Daylight Savings Time

Why do we still do this? The digital explosion has left us with a proliferation of clocks in a wide range of appliances and devices. In addition to the primary clocks (don't forget your car) and wristwatches to change, changes are required in:

ovens (microwave and conventional) TVs, stereos, and VCRs (12:00:00) computers and PDAs telepone answering machines pagers

coffee makers cameras and camcorders bike chronometers office photocopier digital thermostats

Can you tell me others?

James Gleick published an interesting article titled "Manual Labor" in The Sunday New York Times Magazine, April 7, 1996 in which he bemoaned the difficulty in even remembering how to make these changes. As he puts it: "Too many functions -- not enough buttons." Can you keep track of the manuals for all the devices that you acquire?

At least with computers the chore of keeping exact time set can be automated over the Internet:

Time Synchronization Server         Time Synchronization Software     Tucows list of time synchronizers for         Win3.x, Win95/98, WinNT, and Mac     NIST FTP site for nistimen.exe

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.     Shakespeare King Richard II, Act 5 Scene 5

Online Resources for DST
    DST from TimeChange.com
    Circadian Learning Center from Circadian Technologies
    Links to other pages regarding DST
    End DST (www.standardtime.com)