Should I ever cross paths with the SPOTD that designed the calendar program in my PocketPC then I shall most likely spend one hour punching them in the face. Why the sudden irritation with the device I carry with me always? Daylight savings.

Today marks the changeover date for daylight savings and when I turned on the PocketPC today a message appeared to advise me the clock had been automatically updated and that I should check the clock settings to make sure it was still correct (I assume just in case it turned backward one hour instead of forward). Anyway, the time was right but now a lot of my meetings are not.

I’ve been scheduling meetings in the device for coming weeks and apparently the SPOTD in charge of the software design thought “hey, perhaps if a person has made an appointment for 3:30pm then they actually meant for it to happen at 4:30pm so I’ll move their appointments forward one hour at the same time as daylight savings occurs”. Brilliant strategy. Except for one thing - I didn’t want all my meetings to jump forward one hour. Last week if I teed up a meeting at 9am for next week, I didn’t really mean “let’s make it 10am because of the time change”. I meant “9am, independent of whether daylight savings changes between now and then”.

Great plan, dear SPOTD. I’ve just lost an hour of my life adjusting many meetings backward one hour to get them to the originally scheduled times. I’ll be taking that one hour of my life back by repeatedly beating you in the face if we meet.

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