{"id":5313,"date":"2026-03-09T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5313"},"modified":"2026-03-09T00:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:24:42","slug":"hopefully-we-have-all-figured-it-out-by-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5313","title":{"rendered":"Hopefully we have all figured it out by now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never in my life had I heard more advertisements for\u00a0<em>anything<\/em>,\u00a0<em>ever<\/em>, as I did this weekend for the beginning of Daylight Savings Time.<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere I went people&#8211;in person and virtually&#8211;were encouraging me to prepare to set my clocks ahead, encouraging me to set my clocks ahead, and then following up and checking whether I had set my clocks ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I never had this kind of warning or encouragement when, you know, we actually had to\u00a0<em>set our clocks ahead<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is 2026; the things that tell time just\u00a0<em>know<\/em> to change when they&#8217;re supposed to. I don&#8217;t think I could adjust the time on my phone or computer if I tried.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier era, when, as once described on an episode of\u00a0<em>Seinfeld<\/em>, &#8220;they just tell you the night before,&#8221; yeah, people would screw this up all the time. But now? I have no recourse against whatever time my phone says it is. None of us does. If the phones ever wanted to conspire against us&#8230; they totally could.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t give &#8217;em any ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Oh crap, they probably just saw that. No sense in deleting, some AI bot already scraped it.<\/p>\n<p>Shoot. Sorry, everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never in my life had I heard more advertisements for\u00a0anything,\u00a0ever, as I did this weekend for the beginning of Daylight Savings Time. Everywhere I went people&#8211;in person and virtually&#8211;were encouraging me to prepare to set my clocks ahead, encouraging me &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5313\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5314,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions\/5314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}