Is this the weekend we set our clocks back? I ask because suddenly my computer's are an hour behind the time on my DishTV channel guide.

Yes, it is. :)

Well Yes and NO!!! it is for europe, but the US & Canada go back 4th November

Yes, the US has been extended.  Let see how this is going to mess up my computer again.  Sharen

Hrmmm....So my DishTV Channel Guide is correct and my computer and VCR are both off.

I just put my clock forward one hour this weekend.
It's 8:00pm and its only just getting dark.
All this extra light is making my curtains fade.

In Canada it's still DST for another week.

Too confusing,  LOL

Pity no-one reminded my neighbours bratty kids about it as they started running up & down the stairs screaming & shouting at 6am this morning. I'm not impressed! :(

I know I've said this before but I have to each year. I feel the time change in this modern age is the most rediculous thing on earth. This was fine when most of devloped nations based their lives on an agrarian livelyhood and we still used candles for a light source but not now.  I also do not see just how much energy it is actually saving by delaying it a few days longer.  Politicians need to deal with the real issues facing the world and not clock watching.  Screwing with the clocks does not stop the change of seasons it is the wheel of life and can not be delayed by anyone. Just my opinion..LOL!

Agreed, PaganArtist.

Some US states don't do it.

Arizona is one. Or at least they use to be one when my parents lived there.

Ditto PaganArtist.   DST made some sense at the time when it was 
developed in the 1920's because the major use of electricity was 
for lighting, and most people worked 8-5.  

It stopped making sense in the '50s when all sorts of other
appliances (heating, washers, TVs) became the main users
of electricity.  

Now, with less uniformity of schedule, and lighting as a minor
part of the energy mix, it's been proved that DST actually uses
more energy.

*I know I've said this before but I have to each year. I feel the time change in this modern age is the most rediculous thing on earth. This was fine when most of devloped nations based their lives on an agrarian livelyhood and we still used candles for a light source but not now.

• If you've said that before, you've been wrong before.  DST was implemented during the First World War (most people in the UK had passed the candle stage at that point) specifically to reduce coal usage that was being burned for electricity.

In other words, it's an effect of being industrialized, not agrarian.  After that it just caught on, even if there was no real proven utility.

yeah, Ben Frankline came up with it in order to save on candles, engendering the eternal emnity of dairy farmers nationwide..;)

The computers are ' programmed' to switch over on the old schedule. Congress didn't take that into account (I'm shocked, shocked!..;) Microsoft has a 'patch' that supposedly fixes this, and my wife tried it. It now randomly sets her PC clock forward and back depending on when potato futures trip $1 a bushel (or some other random event..)