[Heathkit] Your Clock May Spring Ahead Again Tomorrow!

[Ralph S. Turk]

Move to Arizona.  We never change.
Ralph, W7HSG
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From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
> 
> 
> 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
> HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
> http://www.w9wze.net
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