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Article: Say, do you have the time?(Column)
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- December 3, 1998
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1998 Reed Business Information. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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EVERY OCTOBER, we go through the annual ritual of turning our clocks one hour back to switch from daylight-saving time to standard time. Several years ago, in a combined fit of curiosity and paranoia, I made a list of all the clocks I had to change, and I was surprised to find that there were more than 20 of them; it's not at all hard to have so many. Besides the obvious ones--wrist watches, dashboard clocks, wall clocks, and VCR settings--embedded appliance timers, cell-phone clocks, and many other gadgets have this vital time-telling function.
Some clocks, such as those built into the Windows 98 operating system, automatically do the seasonal switch-over as yet ...
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