Today is the first time in my life I have ever had to change my clocks, “springing forward” as the case may be.
To my fellow Hoosiers, I remind you that you need to set your clocks ahead an hour today, if you haven’t already. Alicia’s alarm clock did this automatically, as did our phones, and most of the other clocks in the apartment were easy enough to get adjusted. I figured my computer would do this automatically–surely one of those automatic Windows updates would account for something as simple as a time zone change, right?
Well, you’d think so, but it just isn’t so. If you double-click the clock on the Start Menu in Windows, you’ll bring up the Date and Time Properties Dialog. If you were as nitpicky as I was when setting up your computer, you should have on the Time Zone tab “(GMT-05:00) Indiana (East).”
This is no longer applicable, as that special Indiana setting was added because no Daylight Savings Time setting had to be considered. That was then.
Now, you should set your Time Zone to “(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)” which will bring up an option below the world map on that dialog: “Automatically ajdust clock for daylight saving changes.”
Check that and “OK” your way out of the dialog, and your computer clock will automatically spring forward and fall back for you at the appropriate time.
Of course, discovering that my computer didn’t automatically make the leap means that it is actually an hour later in the day than I thought it was.
At least I didn’t miss church this morning! :)
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