Saturday, March 12, 2011

FOILED AGAIN: I thought I was being soooo smart -- drafting a self-referential post at this hour queued via the Blogger.com interface to be published on March 13, 2011 at 2:30 am -- a time which, as you know, will not occur thanks to the Daylight Savings Time shift at 2am. I was curious to see what would happen -- would I wake up and find Biff Tannen as my mayor?

Blogger.com is one step ahead of me, sadly. Because when I scheduled this post to be published at that time, an error message popped up: "Because of a daylight savings time shift on the date entered, the time entered does not exist."  So you're seeing it now instead.

(But what if I were posting from Arizona, which does not observe Daylight Savings Time and therefore it does exist? Related, how do tv stations and cable networks broadcasting in Arizona account for the extra hour experienced there tonight while the rest of us jump ahead?)