Natebot
This Is Not Your Father's Natebot.

Daylight Saving Time comes early this year and will last longer too. I admit I did not know a wit about it till moving to the West Coast, because our clocks used to run just fine in Indiana (until the new governor decided to fix them.)

Besides rolling forward your clock, you'll need to run some OS updates on your computer to ensure all your progs work. However you'll have to bribe your child to fix your VCR (I suggest ample offering of Pocky,) and you Tandy TRS-80 users are on your own.

This is not the first change. In 1986 President Reagan increased the length of DST, which the gov claim saves the US 300,000 barrels of oil per year. Sound impressive? That's just a fraction of the oil pumped out of some countries in a day. It's less than half of what California produced in 2000 in a day. Don't get me wrong, a penny saved, as they say, is a penny to be spent elsewhere, but is it worth the hullabaloo that electronic manufacturers, airlines, farmers, and IT departments have to deal with? In the short term I think the answer clearly no.

There is a solution though that would help keep the GDP up. Simply let bars stay open additional hour in October when its time to fall back. Currently, bars closing at 1:59am don't benefit from the time change that happens one minute after closing. Simply keeping a bar open one minute longer (magically bestowing sixty one minutes to that day's business) will see millions in alcohol sales.