I think my favourite response to the problem was a letter in the Journal suggesting that, for the three weeks (or however much it is) that DST has been pushed up, you just set recording times on your VCR one hour earlier. Then the automatic time change kicks in and you're only inconvenienced for three weeks.

Because that's much easier than just setting the VCR clock one hour ahead manually.

EDIT: Here's the text of the letter. Brilliant.

Daylight time
The Edmonton Journal
Published: Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Next Sunday, daylight time kicks in, to the inconvenience of folks whose time settings on computers and VCRs will need adjustments.

Code patches will take care of most computer problems, but VCRs which automatically adjust for DST will need to be manually reset twice in the spring and twice again in the fall.

There is an alternative: During the three weeks this spring when DST takes effect sooner than in other years, simply set recording times with your unchanged VCR one hour earlier than the times scheduled for the broadcasts you want to tape.

Do the same thing during the discrepant week this fall, with settings one hour later than published times.

Wm. W. Rozeboom, Edmonton

But while other countries have coped, Americans have largely become complacent and expect many clocks to change automatically because dates have been set for two decades, said Lauren Weinstein, a veteran technologist.

Poor Americans, no one gives them too much credit, huh?

25 games. I stand corrected.

Don't forget about the mini-Y2K tonight. I guess you'd better break out your hamster-wheel generators and your eye-droppers of water.

PARTY AT AL'S HOUSE

When: Today at 8:30 PM
Where: 11322 10 ave
Why: Because I can
Who: You, me, and everyone else

So I don't want to be an uptight ass but no pets, no drinks on carpeted areas and bring your own booze and have fun!

So the MMFT tourney is under way, so I'll need you illegal voting to get me the win.

Vote for me!

I'm the fourth picture from the top on the right side. (Saberfalcon)

Rules if you are confused

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tuesday night shakedown
with dj frederick & dj generic
$3.50 pints of Stella
every tuesday at Velvet Underground
we be btichin' (happy international Wo"MON"s day)

Oh I'm guessing the party would most likely be this Saturday.

Just floating the idea but how many of you would be intrested in a"Celebrates Al's freedom party"?

My parents are back soon and I might as well throw at least one party while they are away.

What's that bit from the Family Guy where Peter is in Israel and he says "I'm just saying, when you put an Israeli guy next to a Palestinian guy...", and they're all pissed off standing around him?

Face2Face Project:

After a week, we had a conclusion with the same words: these people look the same; they speak almost the same language, like twin brothers raised in different families.

A religious covered woman has her twin sister on the other side. A farmer, a taxi driver, a teacher, has his twin brother in front of him. And he his endlessly fighting with him.

It's obvious, but they don't see that.

We must put them face to face. They will realize.

We want that, at last, everyone laughs and thinks when he sees the portrait of the other and his own portrait.

The Face2Face project is to make portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and to post them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on the Israeli and the Palestinian sides.