Daylight savings time begins tonight in most of the states. I think I am correct in stating that Fogbow does not automatically adjust for DST so you have to go to User Control Panel>Board Preferences and then select the "Summer Time/DST is in effect" option tomorrow.

And then stumble around your house in your sock feet with your coffee and re-set every clock in the house.

Must be antiques, like the house itself.

Modern electric clocks reset themselves. The only ones I had to reset are the oven, the microwave and my car.

I don't have to reset the clock on my stove since I never changed it last fall in the first place.

I'd never reset the time here either lol

No need to reset the time here either, except for our clock radio/iPod/CD/MP3 player thingie gains too much time and needs to be reset. Usually when it says the Singapore national anthem is being played at 6:15 instead of at 6:00, which is when every radio station here has to play it.

But I am thankful when daylight savings time rolls around again in the US. Because then my time is exactly 12 hours offset from New York time, which makes it really easy for me to figure out what time it is anywhere in the US.

Maybe I need some new clocks

The oven and microwave have to be reset every time we have a power outage, and that has been far too often in the last 24 months. Neither has battery backup. The stupid freezer drains its alarm battery by incessantly beeping until power comes back on (the "off' button works for only a while, then back comes the beep). Then it beeps because the battery is nearly dead. The CO detector does the same thing, as do some other wired appliances and detectors such as the security system. The UPS units for the computers all take to beeping. When the power goes off at night, I am usually awakened by a number of beasts appliances complaining about losing power. Changing to DST is a breeze compared to the battle of the beeps.

I need a better power company. Living in one of the most densely inhabited forests in the country presents its own problems, something that the power company may have finally realized.

Tollie, don't feel too bad. Our microwave is 23 years old and I just had to show my husband how to reset the clock. Again.

Oook! I always forget the thermostat for the HVAC.

Not this time!

I'm glad I don't have any more of the dogdamn VCRs - Trying to reset those was just plain rocket surgery. It would go to the point where I just put a piece of black electrician's tape over the light...

Problem Solved for the price of a roll of electrician's tape.

I had a running fight with the management of our office building about this for several years. During the summer the main blowers for the AC shut off around 6 PM. But after the fall switch to standard time, the same blowers for the heat shut off at 5 PM. If it is cold outside it quickly gets very cold and I wind up plugging in the electric space heater to keep warm when I work late. I have complained so many times and suggested that they needed to check the clock controlling the timer. I was told I was wrong, the blowers were going off at the same time they always do, that the clock resets automatically, etc. I finally gave up and learned to live with it because it was clear I was getting nowhere.

I'm very excited to be moving our office to a new building this summer - we have more control over our HVAC system and even windows that open. I have acquired a collection of paperweights in my office (mostly by accident) and I may finally have a use for them.

Thanks for the reminder and instructions, RC!

The thermostat is the one I usually forget. I am glad someone mentioned that. I have gone months before noticing it was wrong time many times.

Apparently President Obama is going to issue an executive order banning the use of Daylight Savings Time in states which do not implement the Obamacare provisions to his satisfaction.

When I was young my father worked for the railroad. Initially, daylight savings time was observed in some towns and not others on their system so the railroad continued to use standard time. To avoid confusion with Dad's work hours we kept some of the clocks on what we called "railroad time". But wait, it gets worse....

I was really into astronomy for a while so I fixed up an old clock to run on sidereal time. I know, that was pretty strange.

I don't bother with the microwave clock. I just never look at it since it's always wrong because of power outages. My gas oven is original with the house and works just fine, but the timer/clock has never worked and sometimes starts ticking loudly for awhile before it goes back to sleep. It even has bright orange radium hands that glow in the dark and are precisely right once a night. I have a fancy German mantle clock that was a gift from one of my classes. It requires changing the battery once a year. Last year, I forgot. So, all I had to reset was the clock in my car (PCE*) and my wristwatch. Just clicking once is easy and simple. It's more of a chore in the fall when you have to click-click-click-click all the way around since there's no way to get to an hour earlier except by going forward 11 hours.

*PCE =pre-computer era

We have one of those clocks that sync to WWVB near Fort Collins Colorado. During the afternoon on Saturday, it "sprang ahead" and was off by an hour. Then got back to the correct time by late afternoon. It was correct on Sunday as well.

My Dad reported the same behavior. Anybody else see that?

My watch set itself properly early Sunday morning. It only checks WWV at 3:00AM, 4:00 AM and 5:00 AM, though. In true procrastination form I haven't purchased a radio wall clock yet.

more at http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/u- ... 41030.html

Yep, here too, also. But it never corrected for us on Saturday. I finally got around to the clock in my car today. It's always picked last for DST, poor li'l clock.

Call me a pedant. It's Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight Savings Time.
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/

Actually it is neither. It may have saved a bit of energy according to a study done in the 1950s, but I doubt that is true today. I now burn electricity in the morning before work instead of the evening. I will posit that more people drive more places and do things in the evening whilst DST is in effect, burning more energy. I believe the Brits refer to it as "summer time" and do not try to kid themselves into thinking they are saving energy.

See Dolly's post: