[Hallicrafters] Watch The Clocks, As Time Springs Again!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Open both of those eyes up and listen up guys! Tomorrow, Sunday March 30th 
at 2:00 AM, was when the long standing daylight savings time plan was to get 
wound up and ticked off. Not anymore! We have the new and even less 
explicable system set into motion two years ago. Now comes the fun!

Even though most of us set our keepers of time ahead by one hour back on 
March 9th, you may awaken tomorrow with a surprise! So when you stagger out 
of bed, check "all" of the time devices, watches, clocks etc. to be sure 
they are showing you the correct time. Some of our electronic wonders 
automatically advance the time ahead when DST begins and set the time back 
one hour when it ends. Since they do this by using a fixed mathmatical 
equation that is inalterable by humans, they will set the time ahead for you 
at 2:00 AM March 30th, just as they are designed to do! You will need to 
fall back one hour, unless you want to be one hour early for everything!

This will apply to almost all computers!

The electronic watches and clocks that keep an ear on WWV will 'not' leap 
ahead, as they do not depend on the DST equation that the non-radio time 
pieces do.Unless somebody at the National Bureau of Standards, NIST, gets 
too much rarified Colorado mountain air and has WWV send out a signal to set 
all the listening chronometers to Mars Equatorial Time!

Since the "dial the time" feature of our telephones was banished to the 
recycle bin of ... a few years ago because according to their study "none of 
us used the service", you can get the correct time by tuning in WWV on 
2.500, 5.000, 10.000, 15.000 or 20.000 MHZ. It is given every minute. If you 
can not hear WWV for reasons unknown, try CHU in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 
3.330, 7.335 or 14.670 MHZ.

Now go make a note in your favorite Crayola crayon on the calendar for this 
November! The first Sunday in November at 2:00 AM is when we must drop back 
by one hour, as in Fall back! However, about one week prior to this event, 
the old DST system will fall back! So you will then need to set your things 
that go tick, or suck the life out of batteries, ahead by one hour for the 
week!

Since almost all the computers on the planet are still affected, unless 
yours is about one year old, one wonders how much input the companies that 
manufacturer computers had to do with this new DST plan? Doubtless they will 
peddle a lot of chips!





Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
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