1.    Before you leave work at the end of this week, change your office area clocks forward one hour (Spring = Forward).  That way when you come into work on Monday morning you won’t arrive an hour late.
2.    Computers, VCRs and some other electronic equipment have been programmed during manufacturing to automatically change the equipment’s time when DST arrives.  With the date change for DST this year that will not happen, at least not until the normal date for DST arrives.  If you or your workplace has added an update to correct the date change to your computer, hopefully it will change it as it has in the past.   If not, you have two choices, one is to manually change the time on your electronic equipment, or two, leave it alone until it changes by itself as it normally would in April.  If you do change the time manually, remember that when the old date for DST arrives in April your electronic equipment may change the time again, so you will then have to change it back.  Hopefully this is the least of the problem with your equipment and like us you really don’t care about the time in the first place.
3.    Before you retire on Saturday night March 10th, change all of your household clocks, timers, watches, alarms, radios, ovens, automatic sprinklers and VCRs forward one hour. Don’t forget your automobile clocks as well. If your VCR is still blinking “12:00” you probably don’t need to bother changing that!
4.    This weekend and next week are also ideal times to do “safety maintenance:

a.    Change the batteries in your smoke, CO and other battery-operated detectors. Carefully and properly dispose of used batteries.
b.    Check the seals and serviceability of household, vehicle and office fire extinguishers. Replace as necessary and review operating procedures with family members.
c.    Update your personal/family emergency plans and review them with family members. Update important phone numbers and points of contact, especially if you recently moved.
d.    Rotate and replace perishable items out of your 72-hour emergency kits. Change the batteries in your portable radio(s) and flashlights; again carefully and properly dispose of the used batteries. Also check the emergency rations/water and other safety items (chains, blankets) in your vehicle(s). If you don’t have a 72-hour kit, now would be a good time to create/buy one. Visit:  http://www.redcross.org/disaster/safety/fdsk.pdf, for a sample.
e.    With warm/hot weather approaching (really it will), consider servicing your vehicles, paying special attention to cooling/heating systems, brakes and tires.  
f.    Change out furnace/air conditioning filters if you don’t already do this monthly.  Prepare swamp coolers for the summer weather.