[Heathkit] Your Clock May Spring Ahead Again Tomorrow!

[Larry R.Babb]

Arizona is hot.  You do change, isn't there a Presidential candidate running
from Az?  That is enough to turn up the heat even more. (Oops)
We have friends in Phoenix.  We love Arizona but it is really warm for me in
the summer.
Larry N7LB

-----Original Message-----
From: heathkit-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:heathkit-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ralph S. Turk
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 7:56 PM
To: Duane Fischer, W8DBF; heathkit at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] Your Clock May Spring Ahead Again Tomorrow!

Move to Arizona.  We never change.
Ralph, W7HSG
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
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
> HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
> hhrp.w9wze.net 
>