A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away there was a thing called Daylight Savings Time (DST). Now DST used to kick-in on the first Sunday of April and end on the last Sunday of October. Easy right? Well things were, pretty much, with watches and clocks and computers all being pre-programmed to make the shift on their own so you wouldn’t have to worry about it. Me, being a technophile obviously had to get the alarm clocks with the built in change mechanism because, well simply because I could.
That was all fine and dandy till this year when a rule changed kicked in and DST changed to starting on the second Sunday of March until the First Sunday of November. The problem with that is, the $9.99 alarm clock I picked up at Wal-Mart, doesn’t have a reprogrammable control chip so now every year I have to change the time, 4 times. Twice when DST actually kicks in and then twice when my clock think it kicks in and mucks up the timing.
Why does this matter at all? Well today April 1st - April Fool’s Day- is a Sunday and obviously it’s the first Sunday in April. My alarm clock seems to think it needs to spring an hour forward. So Johnny over here thinks he’s horrifically late for work this morning, is calling into the office to beg for forgiveness, thinks that their not taking his calls because he’s horrifically late only to find out he gets to work 10mins early before the place is even open. Obviously this could have easily been avoided if yours truly looked at one of the 8 clocks that he has around the house that is manually controlled and displays the right time but that would be too easy now wouldn’t it?
I guess, now I know at least one April Fool.
