Monday, March 12, 2007
Even the atomic clocks are screwed up
I gripe about the time change every year, but this time it’s more annoying than usual. It came three weeks early. I have to install some freaking patch to get my computer to do it automatically. I have two clocks that supposedly synchronize periodically with some atomic clock signal in Denver or something. One’s digital and the other is analog, but they both used to work flawlessly. Now they’re an hour behind. Does this mean the big atomic clock (and really, I have no idea how an atomic clock works, and why it’s any better than a Timex), against which countless other clocks keep time with, is off? Did they not install a patch for it? Ha, it makes me giggle to imagine having to to install any kind of software fix for something that just keeps time all day.
Makes me consider moving to Arizona where they don’t bother with all this time-changing baloney.