So by now you've all hopefully remembered to set your clocks back an hour. For me personally, the change was a subtle reminder of how ubiquitous computing is marching ever-forward. I've just counted, and I have fifteen timepieces in my life. Of those, four automatically changed time to adjust for the end of Daylight Savings.
I was a little surprised by some. Here's how they fared:
Yahoo Watch - No update. Hardly a surprise; it's a dumbtech watch that barely knows what the day and month are, much less day of the week or time zone.
Desktop Mac - Updated right on time. I came home at 1:30am (the, err, second 1:30am) and it was right on the ball.
Powerbook - Same as desktop mac.
iPod - Nope. It knows about timezones (thanks to the 1.2 update, which also gave it a clock and calendar) but it required me to go into settings and change my time zone from 'Eastern (EDT)' to 'Eastern'. It might have done it automatically if I'd sync'ed it with my mac. I won't know 'till April.
Elph s100 Camera - Not only did it not know the time changed, but it thought I was still in California! Funny how little I pay attention to the datestamping functionality of my digicam.
Camcorder - At 12:50am I checked it (just now) and it thought it was 10:50pm. I would have been a little confused if not for the fact that I had checked the elph moments before and it showed 9:47pm. So I thought, 'Neat! It thinks I'm in California still, but at least it did the time change!' Then I realized no: I simply had never set the time forward back in April. Now, writing this down, I realize I have it backwards: The Elph hadn't been reset since before April. The camcorder wasn't even purchased until after April. Anyhow, they're both just smart enough that they should know better, but don't.
Car Stereo - As smart as it is, it doesn't know a thing about calendar dates, and seeing as how it doesn't get its time signal from a radio station, it knows nothing about daylight savings.
Zen Alarm Clock - The thing's analog for crissake. And that's why I love it.
Zeit Atomic Clock - The one item in my house that is expressly created to handle daylight savings time correctly, and it messes it up. A bit about this clock: It reads the longwave time signal broadcast from Colorado, and syncs itself to that signal all the time, so it's the most difinitive timepiece I own. Nevertheless, for the past two years, it adjusts itself for daylight savings time two weeks before it's supposed to, without explanation, or even corroboration by other Zeit clock owners. This month it fell back two weeks early, a not-so-subtle reminder of the impending shift, but fixed itself a few days later. Now, at its moment of truth, it ticks blithly on in defiance of the end of daylight savings. I have little choice but to wait for it to figure out on its own what's what.
Bose Alarm Clock - Doesn't know about dates.
Cellphone - As smart as my Nokia purports to be, and as hopeful I was when I activated the 'auto-adjust clock' feature on it, the thing is as dumb as a digital rock. No joy.
Microwave Oven - Another example of dumbtech. I trust the thing to work as a countdown timer for food, but that's about it.
Kitchen Wall Clock - Analog dumbtech.
Digital Cable Box - Smart. I'd expected that, but considering that the phone line umbilical is currently cut, I wouldn't have been surprised if it didn't get the message for a day or so.
TiVo - Ditto above, though I actually figured it wouldn't update the clock until it made its daily call, which it's been unable to for the last week, thanks to me and my non-payment of my Verizon bill. I should've known better though: A device with Linux at its core is smart enough to know about daylight savings, and adjust on its own.
As for my body, I put a little effort into trying to even out my sleep schedule. It's now 1:15am local time, and I'm going to sleep. Considering that I usually go to sleep around 3:15am, I'm compensating an extra hour, turning in an hour earlier than my biology expects.
I hope everyone else's weekend was good. I've got a few bits to write up in the morning, probably before most of you even wake up from your Monday Bonus Hour of sleep.