The dreaded change to Daylight-Savings-Time

“Dreaded” only because my wife’s computer, a Windows PC, often throws a hissy-fit.
Usually it hasn’t done the time-change.*
Both our computers — mine is an Apple Macintosh — get their time from the time-server in Boulder, CO, National Institute of Standards (NIST).
I was shown long ago how to do that by the ‘pyooter-guru at the Mighty Mezz.
First we set up my MAC here at home back then — the Messenger was using MACs during my employ.
We then set about doing the same for my wife’s Windows PC; wasn’t that hard.
So now both our computers are synchronized to the Atomic Clock in Boulder, the source for correct time.
When the time-signal put out by NIST “Springs Ahead” to Daylight-Savings-Time, everything except my wife’s computer follows.
Both our cellphones and our alarm-clock get their time from the satellite, which uses Atomic-Clock time.
Last night (Saturday, March 12, 2011) I reset everything that doesn’t. What I do is synchronize my digital wrist-watch to the Atomic-Clock time on my Macintosh.
When I got up at 3:30 a.m. our alarm-clock had “sprung forward.”
I see my MAC has done it too, as it always does.
I stopped using “Apple-Time,” since it was always a few seconds fast.
Now I hafta reset our DV recorder so it doesn’t get Oprah (Ugh!). —Oh-PRA! —Oh-PRA! —Oh-PRA! —Oh-PRA!
And my wife has to reset her computer.
Come-on Gates; it ain’t rocket-science!
And every time we switch to Daylight-Savings, we hear about tampering with “God’s Time.”
Ahem, “God’s Time” is that delivered by your sundial.
Dawn arrives in Boston much earlier than in Canandaigua.
The four “Standard-Time” zones in this nation are the doing of the railroads; they were sick of times varied along their routes.
In Baltimore it might be 4:30 p.m., but in York, PA north of Baltimore it might be 4:20, and in Harrisburg it might be 4:15.
In New York City it might be 4:30 p.m., but in Buffalo it might be 4 o’clock.
How can you schedule anything amidst such madness? Time in Philadelphia might be 4:30, but in Huntingdon, PA it might be 4:15, and in Altoona it might be 4:10. —And in Johnstown it might be 4:06.
*We have decided the legions at Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, know Daylight-Savings-Time is not in use everywhere. So you are required to manually switch it on.
Jobs and his cronies at Apple decided Daylight-Savings-Time is in use in most places, so they programmed an added hour to the time-signal.
The NIST time-signal is neither here-nor-there, so isn’t sending a Daylight-Savings-Time time-signal. —Except perhaps to the satellite.
Cellphones get the satellite time-signal; perhaps all MACs as well.
What if I’m in Hawaii, where Daylight-Savings-Time is not used?
Do I hafta dial my cellphone back?
Are the tables turned? All MACs in Hawaii are wrong?

• My wife of 43+ years is “Linda.” Like me she’s retired, and she retired as a computer programmer.
• “Gates” is Bill Gates, head of Microsoft.
• The “Mighty Mezz” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, from where I retired over five years ago. Best job I ever had — I worked there almost 10 years.
• “‘Pyooter” is computer.
• “Canandaigua” (“cannan-DAY-gwuh”) is a small city nearby where we live in Western NY southeast of Rochester. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” —It’s about 15 miles away.
• “Jobs” is Steve Jobs, head of Apple.