Thus said Steve on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:16:46 MST: > Honestly I'm more worried about my wristwatch.
I'm just as worried about my watch that I purchased a year or two ago, as well as the wall clocks that I have purchased over the years. Each one has timezone abilities, as well as DST , however, unless the DST change is also transmitted with the atomic signal that they sychronize with, they will be out of kilter for a couple of weeks. What I would like to know is how this thing just kind of came out of the blue. Did We the People have any say in the matter or are we just a huge test tube for this kind of thing? Had I known of such changes coming down the pike, I most certainly would have opposed them. > I purchased it immediately prior to the changes, and as such even > though it does the switch over on DST automatically based on where I > live, this feature is now going to be "broken", and now it looks like > I may have to set my watch 4 times per year instead of 2 :(. And I purchased my watch (atomic as well) and all the wall clocks specifically because I didn't even want to bother changing the clock 2 times a year. It does so automatically. Hopefully this functionality will automagically work due to the atomic signal, but I'm a bit skeptical. Anyone have any insight into how these actually work and if I'm at risk of having broken clocks (or manually set) for a while? Andy -- [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 8:30pm up 9:51, 2 users, load average: 1.01, 1.08, 1.11 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
