Longer daylight saving may cause trouble (trouble only for lazy people!)

Anymore VCR's automatically set their time when they are turned on... I have no idea how they do it other than listening for the GPS signal and setting accordingly...

Would you believe it's PBS?

They broadcast a signal that allows more modern VCRs to indeed set the clock themselves.

The problem is in CHANGING the weekends in which the Spring Ahead/Fall Back adjustment is to take place. And the US will be on its own, not consistent with the rest of the world which has tended to stay with the first April/last October changeovers.

I have a list of clocks and other timing devices that need to have their time adjusted each season. It usually grows by a couple items each year. Right now, it is up to 41 devices. Car radios, microwaves, phone answering machines, thermostats, televisions--everything has a clock in it these days.

So now with this modification to the weekend of the changes, the VCRs and computers, etc, that adjust automatically will have to be manually adjusted 4 times a year to stay accurate: Once each on the two new days of the change, and twice more on the "old" weekends to offset its built-in automatic change.

Note that they were proposing to do it on the 4th weekend of November, until the airline industry explained to them how bad traveling is on that weekend already without throwing in the time adjustments.

And the US will be on its own, not consistent with the rest of the world which has tended to stay with the first April/last October changeovers.

We already were changing differently from Europe. They would start at the end of March, we the beginning of April. We both would change back on the same date in fall. Now we will be changing earlier than them in the spring and a week later in the fall. We never were consistent with Europe.

So now with this modification to the weekend of the changes, the VCRs and computers, etc, that adjust automatically will have to be manually adjusted 4 times a year to stay accurate: Once each on the two new days of the change, and twice more on the "old" weekends to offset its built-in automatic change.

Turn the auto feature off and you'll only have to change them twice a year.

I understand but when your body has to wake up at 5:30 a.m. and you "fall back" you don't give a rat's hiney that you get the hour back in the evening when you now have to drag your carcass out of bed at 4:30 a.m.!!! I just never get used to it and really hate it. It would be easy if I was going from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. like a lot of people I know but for me, 4:30 a.m. body time is just abusive. I wish I could just stay on DST all the time. So what if it's dark at night.

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