[geeks] DST change costs

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From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
> Wed, 17 Jan 2007 @ 23:30 +0200, sammy ominsky said:
> 
> > On 17/01/2007, at 23:29, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > 
> > > I have a one year old atomic watch that becomes a paperweight this
> > > spring. It's DST table is internal, and I doubt there is a way to  
> > > change
> > > it.
> > 
> > Are you sure about that?  If it receives a signal from Colorado, the  
> > DST info is encoded in that signal with the time.
> 
> I know the DST information is encoded, but I didn't know that included
> the day of the change.
> 
> If so, that's good.
> 
> I was really hating to lose my watch because it is fairly new and works
> perfectly.

On most of those watches you can shut off the DST and then change the 
time manually.  Yeah, I know it defests the "auto resetting" of the
time but it is only twice a year....

Bob