Sunday, March 8, 2015

On Preparing Wristwatches for DST

Computers and smartphones do it on their own. But not wristwatches. I mean springing forward an hour at 2 AM Sunday morning for DST. Since I may be too distracted at that hour, I decided to advance my four wristwatches at 10:30 PM Saturday night. Here I was sitting on my couch with all of the watches calibrated to 11:30 while I stared at my cable TV box as it edged to 10:30 PM. At that moment I rushed to push in the knobs on all four watches, trying not to send any to the floor that had been draped over my right knee. Success! But now I realize that the three that indicate the date need correction because February was such a short month!