This weekend in most of North America and the Caribbean, the clocks are going ahead one hour -- three weeks earlier than last year. They will go back the first weekend in November, one week later. This was something done by the US Congress in 2005 to promote energy conservation and since most other countries in North America are so much tied in trade to the US they pretty much didn't have a choice but to follow. Only problem is, unless you've updated your computer's operating system to download a patch, it will still "think" we're on standard time this weekend and won't change the time until the first weekend of April. This isn't so much an issue as big as Y2K but it could be a heck of a nuisance.
So just a suggestion: If you don't download your updates automatically, and you live somewhere where the change will take place this weekend, take a few seconds to go to Microsoft or Apple and download the time patch. It'll save a lot of aggravation.
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