It's that time again in North America [telecom]

Ummm..... the US and Canada (where Daylight Saving (no 's') Time is observed) will "spring-forward" the FOLLOWING weekend, Sunday 14 March 2010, NOT this weekend.

I would have thought it was the first Sunday in March (according to the new/revised schedule a few years ago), but I double-checked several sources, and NO it is NOT the first Sunday in March, but rather it is the SECOND Sunday in March when the US/Canada springs-forward into Daylight Saving (no 's') Time.

We do FALL-BACK to Standard Time on the FIRST Sunday in November though, according to the current schedule adopted a few years ago. It's now AFTER Halloween. It used to be the Sunday BEFORE (or ON) Halloween in most places in the US and Canada which observed Daylight time, so depending on the latitude and where east/west one was in their time-zone, it was already dark at 6pm when the kids would just start "trick-or-treating".

Mark J. Cuccia markjcuccia at yahoo dot com Lafayette LA, formerly of New Orleans LA pre-Katrina

I have an alarm clock - a Scott model SCR120 - which sets its time automagically with a built-in WWVB receiver, and adjusts for Daylight Saving Time automatically as well.

But, it's hard-wired to switch to Daylight Saving Time on the _OLD_ schedule, not the new one, and it drives me nuts twice a year, because I must manually switch it to another time zone to change it to EDT on the _new_ start date, and then I must switch back to the "correct" time zone on the _old_ start date. It's the same process in reverse come the fall.

I know I can buy a new one, but I'm a cheap Yankee, so I'll ask if anyone knows how to reset this clock to the _new_ DST switchover dates, or, failing that, how to disable automatic DST changes entirely.

Bill Horne Moderator

Here's another local time/temp item for your collection:

New Haven CT 203 776-2210 (aka 203 SPRINGS)

Cheers, -- tlvp

-- Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP

Because of a WEBFAK(*), On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:57:10 -0500, tlvp wrote, in part:

Please add the number originally given to "la poubelle": it was that of an innocent, random, residential line.

Please ignore it, and use instead the *true* 203 SPRINGS time/temp number, 203 777-4647. Thank you.

Cheers, -- tlvp [(*)WEBFAK: Wetware Error Between Fingers And Keyboard]

-- Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP

Duluth MN (since the 1960s at least): 218-727-9000

There's another list of active (and no longer active) time and temperature numbers (and recordings of these systems) at