Are you ready?

Were you one of the thousands who were unaware of the small amendment that will ruin your year in 2007? If so, I've got some sad news. You see, here in Kentucky, the Daylight savings bill went UNREPORTED in the Louisville Courier-Journal. Unreported until it was too late. Time change bill will cause mass chaos on electronics. Thought you recorded you're favorite show? Nope, due to the earlier than usual time change in 2007, you found out what you got was the news instead. Okay, so it could be something like that but irregardless, it will cause you to have to manually change time on electronics...maybe even year cell phone.

When daylight-saving time starts earlier than usual in the United States come 2007, your VCR or DVD recorder could start recording shows an hour late.

Cell phone companies could give you an extra hour of free weekend calls, and people who depend on online calendars may find themselves late for appointments.[...]

And that has technologists worried about software and gadgets that now compensate for daylight time based on a schedule unchanged since 1987.

"It is unfortunately going to add a little bit of complexity to consumers," said Reid Sullivan, vice president of the entertainment group at Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co. "In some cases, depending on the product, they may have to manually increase or decrease the time."

The upcoming transition evokes memories of Y2K, the Year 2000 rollover that forced programmers to adjust software and other systems that, relying on two digits for the year, never took the 21st century into account.

"It wouldn't be a society-wide catastrophe, but there would be a problem if nothing's done about it or we try to move too quickly," said Dave Thewlis, executive director of a group that promotes standards for calendar software.

Newer VCRs and DVD recorders have built-in calendars to automatically adjust for daylight time. Users would have to override them, switching to "manual" to ensure shows continue to record correctly.

Computers with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating systems would need to obtain updates. Though most affected applications would likely be taken care of by the Microsoft fix, calendar systems will need to be checked to ensure that appointments already entered get properly adjusted.

Some electric utilities have advanced meters to adjust rates based on peak and non-peak hours, and studies would be required to determine if any modifications are needed. The telecommunications industry, meanwhile, must ensure that its clocks are properly adjusted to bill customers properly.

Adding to the complications is the fact that many computer programs now treat U.S. and Canadian time zones as the same. If Canada doesn't adopt the new dates, too, Windows, calendars and other software would have to learn additional zones.

Thanks a lot, Mr. President, for screwing our country! Well, our electronics at the least in his efforts to save oil even though I'll have the lights on during the daytime anyway...like always.

Jason Marquis, pitching against his former team, was unable to become the 5th Cardinals starter with 10 wins yesterday. FOX spells bad luck as the Cards have lost all the games on Saturday in which they appeared on the station while playing at home. Matt Morris starts tomorrow following Carpenter's start today.

With 7 innings pitched today, Tim Wakefield could join Roger Clemens and Cy Young as the members of the Red Sox 2,000 IP club. Through three innings, Wakefield is still in as the Sox are leading 5-3.

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