Daylight Saving Time

Say goodbye to daylight-saving time this weekend. (Nov. 4th 2007 )



The days are growing shorter...
The leaves are falling too...
The sun sinks early in the sky...
Until it is no longer, blue...

The clock is quickly ticking...
It is that time of year...
When we need to be reminded...
The time to turn our clocks is here...
 

We move an hour of daylight…
To the morning from the night…
If you forget to do it…
It could be a terrible fright…

Turn them back, not forward...
And if you do it right...
You will be able to enjoy...
An extra hour of sleep tonight...
 

© Jeannie Nourse

The bug in daylight-saving time
 

A new law that extends daylight-saving time (DST) by four weeks means programmers will once again need to check their software code for potential problems in handling a calendar adjustment.

The measure, approved as part of energy legislation this summer, would shift the start of DST from April back to March -- and move its end from October to November -- most likely beginning in 2007. Those extra four weeks will save energy -- the equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil a day.

But it may also trip up applications and gadgets programmed to automatically handle DST hours based on the schedule the U.S. has kept for nearly two decades.