SoCal is indeed plagued with DST, and I did have to set the microwave at
a later non-critical time. The G-Shock 'solar-atomic' watches both set
themselves.
...and the Canon will get updated whenever I'm in the mood,
I don't use the EXIF anyway.

So you either don't live in an area doomed by DST, or you don't own a
camera, microwave oven, car with a clock, long case clock, or watch.

My clocks all set themselves, leaving me free to do the nothing of
importance stuff that happens at that time of the morning.

Before time can be considered to be wasted, you have to determine that
the time would be otherwise better spent on some more useful activity.

If it takes a person five minutes to change the necessary clocks, and
if that person would have spent those five minutes watching Jerry
Springer or Oprah if there wasn't a need to change the clocks, then
there is no waste.  If the person multi-tasks, as most of us do, while
changing the clocks, there is no wasted time.

Who here didn't have time to do something important Sunday because
they had to divert that time to changing the clocks?

Don't all raise your hands at once.

 

Just a quick back of the envelope thing - you're probably right.

I think you underestimate by an order of magnitude or more.

Another four million man-hours down the crapper!

Hello, my fellow Americans...did you remember to move all of your timepieces, back
an hour? Daylight Saving Time ended, early on Sunday morning (November 1, 2009), in
our country.

I, personally, needed to reset my wristwatch, several clocks, various electronic
devices, a number of digicams and my lone DSLR (Pentax K100D); initially, I forgot
a few of the devices (including some cameras), and did them later.