It's all back for this weekends clock tinkering:
Daylight-saving time would ordinarily have begun on the first Sunday in April. Instead, it'll begin this weekend.CLICK HERE FOR MORE DEVICES CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post here
If you're like most of us, you'll get up Sunday morning and reset the clock in the kitchen, and the one on the microwave, and the old clock in the living room, and so on and so forth. But what about your computer? Or the clock in your cell phone? Or let's say there's a stock you're hoping to buy online just before the market closes Monday.
Here are some things of which computer specialists say you ought to be mindful:
Computers: If you have a new one, running, say, Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2, or Apple's OS X, you'll likely be fine. Newer machines either know that daylight-saving time has moved up, or software patches were sent out online. If you have an older operating system, though, you'll have to change the computer's clock on your own, and you may have to un-change it when it thinks the clock is supposed to spring forward on April 1. No big deal, but there are tens of millions of older machines out there.
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Cell Phones: You should be OK, but you should also pay attention, say tech consultants. Your cell phone typically receives time signals from your service provider, and the major ones have been updating their systems to avoid trouble.
