My Daylight Savings Time Woe… (you got one?)
After a couple weeks of preparing you, my subscribers via email, and working hands on with customers for the Daylight Savings Time switch of 2007 for North America. I had to take care of my own system. And like most of my client environments, my environment converted fine following the procedure outlined in the DST Utility Video. This became evident with the switchover yesterday morning.
However, ….I forgot one key thing.
You see all the computer systems converted just fine. One system didn’t quite get the appropriate patch applied. This dawned on me when I saw the 1 hour difference between my wall clock, and my computer, at what I thought was 9:45am yesterday. I was getting ready to leave for church, when I was checking email and saw my computer’s clock…10:45am. I forgot to change the clocks in the house the night before, and tell everyone in my own household! The result, we were about 45 minutes late for church! Ha! Did I hear it endlessly from my sister, her husband, and other friends visiting from out of town. “You tell your clients and people on email about this, make a big fuss, but forget to change the clocks in your own house!” They were dead on…there is just no way to escape the practical things in life, like changing the kitchen clock two times a year (if you are in the affected time zone, of course).
BTW, my Alltel cell phone was off most of the morning as well, it switched after I was on the road to church, not sure if Alltel had issues, or what. The palm patch was applied (Treo phone) the day before.
You have a DST story to tell from this year, or years passed? Share it in the comment boxes below.
