Time-shifting daylight saving time to wreak gadget havoc

No, not the good kind of time shifting
about to go down up in here, but instead America's favorite old-school wartime tradition of energy conservation,
daylight saving time (yes, no s), is about to get overhauled for 2007. We'll save our snippy comments about America's energy policy reform merely consisting of making DST three weeks earlier and ending it a week later than usual, but we would like to take a moment to think of all those devices out there that think they're supposed to switch over the first Sunday in April and back the last Sunday in October, and how their owners may be in for a rude awakening in a year and a half. Think devices with firmware not always easily updated, such as cellphones, alarm clocks, VCRs, etc.
No, this isn't going to lead to the apocalypse, but just a big pain for a lot of consumers.