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Spring Forward
9 March 2024
Spring doesn't officially spring upon us until March 19 but it will be one hour closer tomorrow when Daylight Saving Time (for those of us who observe it) takes effect at 2 a.m. Which instantly becomes 3 a.m.
We lose an hour in this brief life to extend daylight an hour later. The good news is that it may also extend your life.
"Compared to year-round daylight saving time, year-round standard time would cause 100 more deaths, 6,000 more injuries and at least $3.5 billion in costs every year through increased deer-vehicle collisions alone," writes Laura Prugh, a wildlife biologist at the University of Washington, in Switching the Clocks Twice a Year Isn't Just Annoying It's Deadly (gift link).
So no complaint. Except the bother of setting all our clocks.
Fortunately our computers and smartphones are clever enough to set themselves these days, so we recapture a few minutes of our time. But that's about it.
Set the clock in your cameras for Daylight Saving Time tonight.
After many years of mixed results following inferior methods, we've trained ourselves to set all the clocks before retiring on Saturday night.
The old VCR has been retired, but there's still the cordless VOIP phones, the toaster oven, the microwave, the oven itself, the kitchen clock (why four clocks in one room?), the assorted clock/radios, the garage door clock (we couldn't believe it either but it tells the temperature too), the shop clock, the antique Casio solar chronograph we call Patek Philippe, the atomic clock in the radon-insulated bunker and the clock in the car.
Sorry to put you through that, but that paragraph is what we use to make sure we've set all our clocks before retiring.
After tending to all those (resorting to the car clock manual, which explains which hidden radio keys to use), we hit the sack with something like a feeling of accomplishment. We have moved history up an hour without war, famine or pestilence.
Guess which clocks we still manage to forget. Right, the clocks in our cameras. Hence this public service announcement. Set the clock in your cameras for Daylight Saving Time tonight.
And if you don't happen to make the change before you shoot some photos, don't worry. Just download Pasini's Time Machine, our free utility to fix the time on those images.
After you set the clocks in your cameras.