Get Ready for the Extended Daylight Savings Time

This year won’t be your typical spring forward and fall backward because the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed by the U.S. Congress July, 2005, extended Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the U.S. by approximately four weeks. So this year Daylight Saving Time starts 3 weeks earlier on March 11, 2007, and ends one week later. This year it won’t be quite as easy as changing your clocks and watches. You’ll also have to take care of things like your PC which usually adjust automatically. Windows released an update which you hopefully got through the automatic updates feature and should have enabled. You may also have other software or devices that need to be changed. Jenny and I have to update our cell phones running Microsoft Smartphone 2003 as well. Who knows, this may cause more trouble than Y2K.

2 thoughts on “Get Ready for the Extended Daylight Savings Time

  1. What does it mean that my computer came throught the time change with no problem, but when I looked at my watch just before 10am Mass was to begin this morning, it said 8:25? I guess living with a house full of individuals diagnosed with the knack has these effects on a person’s electronic and mechanical devices.

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