[Gay State Conservative]

. If you've got a iPod Touch, then it goes out to the Internet and gets the time (as a function of Mac OS X, just like the Mac computers, do too...).

Yes,it's a Touch and it's the only apple product I've ever owned or used.It has internet capability but it was only turned on this morning in an area without WiFi coverage (I wasn't home) so I don't understand how it would have connected to the internet.Oh well,maybe I don't have to understand it.I'll just add it to the long list of other stuff that I don't understand. ;-)

[Star Traveler]

Then it shifted time according to the rules on the calendar. I mean, the DST rules are built into the system. It detects the “date” — knows the time has to be shifted, and it does it. It’s all internal.

The “going out to the Internet” is for “time synching”.... but you don’t have to go out to the Internet for the “date function” as you’ve already got that set, and it’s accurate everyday. So, it knows when DST is supposed to be — and it changes it. :-)