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Andrew - I want you to understand - computers are out to get you.

DO NOT TRUST THEM. They lie; They're sneaky; they try to lead you astray!

<anyone suspect my paranoia??>

I've been aware of this for some time now, margo. Particularly the lying part. At times I've been told I've no new messages when my mailbox is full to overflowing.

"Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about that."

"Open the pod bay doors Hal..."

Since they started using more arbitrary dates for when DST begins and ends, and it is no longer is a fixed weekend n the Spring and Fall, I don't trust Microsoft to reset my computer when the time changes anymore. So we'll get up Sunday morning looking blankly at all the clocks on the walls, radios, night stand, digital HD TV, stove, microwave, coffee pot, etc., including those on the computer, wondering if we've reset them yet or still need to.

(Also hunting up directions on how to do that on some of them)

I wish to hell they'd pick a time and then leave it alone.

Meanwhile we gotta stick together against predatory computers. . . .

I'm still trying to figure out why they keep calling it "standard time" when it's only observed nowadays for -- what? -- three months or so? So-called daylight saving time has become the standard norm in the US.

In Arizona, we do not change our clocks this weekend.

I know. It's one of a number of things I like about your state, Tico. Might retire there someday, who knows.

You don't, but the Navajo/Hopi reservations do. I don't travel all that much any more, but it made it really interesting figuring out appointment schedules when I worked over there.

When you're dealing with either the Navajo or the Hopi, an hour or two one way or the other doesn't really matter much when it comes to appointments.
(I don't mean this to sound critical in any sense, btw. The Native sense of time and punctuality is simply quite different from us belagona.)

My VCR went to EST last Sunday. I assume it will make no adjustment this Sunday and everything will be O.K. I must stay alert for next March when DST comes back.

Perhaps. But I've found Navajo and Hopi business owners to be mostly courteous, punctual, and prepared when they've had appointments with me. I rather thought I should probably know what time I needed to be there.

You must have a new-ish model, flyboy. My 'puter is several years old, born before they switched dates on dst.

No, not so new. It was programmed to switch back to standard time on the last sunday in October, which it did. It wasn't until this year that the change takes place on the first sunday in November.