David McCreath

Daylight Savings Time and iPods

November 3, 2005

Not just iPods, actually, but that’s what made me think of it. My computer does it. My VCR does it. I’ve had watches that could do it. Why can’t my iPod? Any device that contains both date and time and has some embedded programming capability should know that it needs to change its clock when we enter or leave Daylight Savings Time. For example, my iPod should be smart enough to know that if I set my time zone to “Alaska”, it needs to adjust on the correct days. I shouldn’t have to go into a separate menu and change my time zone from “Alaska” to “Alaska (DST)” or back. That’s particularly stupid, because why not just go in and change the hour by one click instead of changing the time zone? It couldn’t take that much more programming.

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