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Fall Back
4 November 2023
You might want to stay up with your favorite stimulant before you turn in tonight. The occasion? The end of Daylight Saving Time (for those of us under its thumb) at 2 a.m. tomorrow. Which instantly becomes 1 a.m. again.
Our computers and smartphones are smart enough to update themselves. But that's about it. The rest do not exhibit sufficient artificial intelligence to manage on their own.
After many years of experimentation, we've disciplined ourselves to change all the clocks when making the rounds before retiring on Saturday night. There's no need to stay up until 2 a.m. so no stimulant is required.
Set the clock in your cameras for the end of Daylight Saving Time tonight.
We count our blessings the old VCR has been retired, but there's still the cordless VOIP phones, the toaster oven, the microwave, the oven, 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 somehow tells the temperature too), the shop clock, the atomic clock in the bunker and the clock in the car before we can hit the sack. Oh, and the Bluetooth timer that runs a lamp has to be accessed manually to adjust its schedule.
The WiFi smart plugs update themselves, which gets them a mention at the Thanksgiving table.
But we nearly always manage to forget the clocks in our cameras. Hence this public service announcement. Set the clock in your cameras for the end of Daylight Saving Time tonight.
If you didn't get this notification in time, you can always use our free Photo Time Machine to set things right. We're here to help, after all.