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Thanks to the new DST times, my DVR is off by 1 hour. And since it can't dial home to get updates over my phone line (I have a VOIP phone system), it will not record anything properly for the next 3 weeks. Thank you DirecTV for insisting on using a phone line connection rather than using my Internet connection.

Dug this out of the time zone data files published by the government which computers use to know when to change their clocks in the comments section:

Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin

in his whimsical essay ``An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost

of Light'' published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26).

Not everyone is happy with the results:

I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some

agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving

daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind.

I even object to the implication that I am wasting something

valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer

of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to

reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving

scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager

to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make

them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.

-- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks,

Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday

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Did the clock-setter of the Cafe' forget, or do we have to do our own springing forward?

"damn it"

The Cafe server does have the correct time. Is your PC showing the correct time?

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I'm lucky this year because the kids have Spring Break this week. Usually it takes them about three weeks to recover from the time change - and it's always worst for the younger one.

I'm not so sure DST really accomplishes anything significant. The only benefit I can see in keeping it is that in Fall I get that extra hour of sleep. Nice!

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We don't play the clock shuffle...

One more reason to Love Arizona :biglaugh::biglaugh:

Gloat away. :) I envy you.

My Mom is REALLY pi$$ed at the current governor of Indiana,

(Mitch Daniels) who mandated the time change.

Indiana used to never change either

They used to be on an even keel,

but now are topsy-turvy like 47 of the other states!

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