This Sunday is a big deal in the United States: it’s our bi-annual trip through the space-time continuum. As we prepare to “spring forward,” losing the precious hour of 2AM to the depths of the black hole. This year our cosmic finagling happens earlier than normal as the government has shifted the beginning and ending dates for Daylight Savings Time.
Apple released patches for OS X a few weeks back to correct the system’s automatic Daylight Savings Time adjustment, so I was a little puzzled to see an unofficial patch this morning from the Computing and Information Services department of the University of New Hampshire (motto: C-c-c-c-cold). The patch applies to systems running 10.3.9 and earlier. While Apple’s patch does work on 10.3, users of 10.2, 10.1, and 10.0 are told to change their clocks manually.
If you’re running one of those OS X versions for whatever reason (perhaps you are trapped in a space-time singularity of 2001, in which case we are very sorry. Please say hello to the Baha Men for us), and you don’t feel up to the task of resetting your own clock, you might want to grab UNH’s patch.
