Time change can cause confusion
Joe Tennis/Bristol Herald Courier
Published: November 2, 2007
Updated: November 2, 2007
I still don’t know what time it is. Published: November 2, 2007
Updated: November 2, 2007
It’s been a couple of days. And, just looking around, I’m finding different numbers on almost every timepiece.
My new laptop says 9:30. But the bigger computer next to it says 10:35.
Only, that’s because I reset that computer’s clock. I moved the computer’s time up an hour after it came on the other day and decided to reset itself – thanks to what it said was “Daylight Savings Time.”
Actually, I first noticed this happening on my old laptop – the little one that I love the most. Even so, everyone else would call it worthless.
It runs Windows 95. And I don’t care. I just love it.
I know it’s antiquated. And, yes, I have to use floppy disks to move files to any other machine. But, really, that’s OK.
I like the antiquated nature. I like how that machine stays uncomplicated.
It’s a computer that never takes a drive on what Rick Boucher used to tout as the “Information Superhighway.”
In other words, I never let it get tied up on the Internet.
Simply put, it’s old.
So, when it decided to reset itself, saying it was following the rules of “Daylight Savings Time,” I simply let it. I wasn’t going to argue.
I mean, it would have been like telling my poor, old dog Wendy – another product of 1995 – that she didn’t know what she was doing.
Wendy does what she wants. So I figured I would let that old computer do what it wanted, too.
Only, this time-resetting thing wasn’t contained to that computer.
Looking around, I found every contraption reset itself – from the computer to the VCR.
It’s like they all wanted to show off their independence.
Trouble was, they were all wrong – at least, according to my calendar.
Call it a liberal plot or maybe a vast right-wing conspiracy. But the official “Daylight Savings Time” has been moved up to the night of Nov. 3-4.
And that change, with all these machines, has caused me a lot of confusion.
Come Sunday, maybe, I might get myself straight.
For now, though, I’m just looking around.
And I still don’t know what time it is.
JOE TENNIS is a Herald Courier features writer. He may be reached at or (276) 791-0704.
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