I woke up this morning and my alarm clock proudly displayed the time. I was so bummed.

I looked across the room at the digital atomic clock + thermometer on the bookcase. Perfectly correct as usual. Damn.

My last hope: the old-looking analog clock that actually has an internal Atomic radio receiver. It too, was right.

I had been so convinced that this was really going to be it. Y2K was such a huge letdown; I really thought that this time would be different. This time it wasn’t some simple 2-digit vs. 4-digit date thing. THIS was Daylight Saving Time! Something this sacred simply had to wreak havoc on our technology. How would it deal with this change? Surely my TiVo was going to record the wrong show, the power would go out, and my car would not start. Yet to my ever-living disappointment, all that happened was that my heat turned on an hour late so the house was a little cold when I got up this morning. So that’s how I began my day: coldly disappointed.