This seems wrong. I've checked two calendars and March 1, 2009 falls on a Sunday.

Regardless of any legislation (unless our governement has decided to ignore the historical popes and create their own calendar), there is a pattern to calendars that is easy to discern from looking at any perpetual calendar in print. In fact, perpetual calendars could not exist if there was not that definite pattern.

It would seem impossible that, over the course of a thousand years, that pattern could never have March first fall on a Sunday. Mathematics could probably explain this, whether politicians could, or not. The repeat is 7 years, or 6 years, taking leap year into account for next March, (March is always a bit confused, following February).

After 2009, during which you seem to imply the pattern is revoked, the next day March first should fall on a Sunday is 2015, unless that, too, has been changed by legislation. If so, we are in for a worse situation than the Y2K debacle promised. We will have to throw out all our little perpetual calendars we have been keeping over the years. And, none of our watches will work anymore.

Oh, what to do, what to do?

Yeah, tell that to my clock that "never has to be adjusted." Every year, four times, I have to reset my time zone because of the changes to DST.

Earth.

Any equipment that doesn't know the new U.S. and Canadian time rules (from last year) will still follow the old rule, and thus will be wrong 4 times per year. First is when we spring ahead in March, but the old equipment won't. Second is when we do nothing in April, but the old equipment springs ahead. And third and fourth happen similarly in October and November.

The other choice is to not manually fix them, but let them be wrong for 3 weeks in the spring and 1 week in the fall.