The upcoming Daylight Saving Time (DST) change may become a hassle for many. Starting this year, DST will take effect about three weeks sooner in the spring (starts on the 2nd week of March now) and ends a week later (the first Sunday in November). While people have been talking for some time about ensuring that everything computer-related, such as Windows and applications, is updated to handle the change going in effect this year, they seem to be ignoring other devices that could potentially be affected. Many clock radios, VCRs, TVs, cameras, and other portable electronic devices don't have the capability to get their software patched, and will likely need to be thrown away. That's because they are programmed to change at specific times of the year that are no longer valid. Keeping them would mean going from not changing them at all in a year, to changing them 4 times a year to keep them accurate...twice for the actual DST, and twice to revert its own incorrect DST changes.

With big companies going through patching everything for the new change, it's interesting to think about how much the change is actually costing, and how much it's really going to save.