Then he contacts the big outfit than handles the factory's payroll to make sure everything is ready on that end.

No problem, fish is told, we'll have it changed on Sunday morning at 2 a.m.

Don't forget that we also have four other facilities in the state, fish adds, and their time clocks will need to be switched as well.

No problem, comes the reply. We handle these issues all the time.

"We think this is odd, since there are only three states not following DST in the nation and nobody has dealt with this since the early 1970s," fish says. "But they're the experts. They make the big bucks for getting it right.