How do I program my VCR to record from 1 to 3 am when DST is ending?

[baby_bear]

I'm scratching my silly little head over this one. I have my VCR set to record from 1 am to 3 am Sunday morning. But at 2 am, the time goes back to 1 am...so what will happen to my taping?

Boy do I feel dumb.

s_m

[Kellanved]

1. Depends on the VCR

The VCR should record until it's time is equal to the pre-programmed end-recording time.
The question that does remain is the way you VCR's clock is set: uses it a time signal or do you have to set it manually?

[baby_bear]

2. I set the clock manually

So....??? Do I need to be up at 2 am?

[sweettater]

3. how about this?

set your VCR clock back one hour before you program it.

[NoMoreRedInk]

4. the VCR won't know. just start taping at 1 and have it quit...

the appropriate amount of time later. then wake up and reset your VCR clock in the morning.

[Bossy Monkey]

5. The actual question is how is the tv network handling the time change

They seem to vary. As mentioned above, if the programming starts at 1 and goes for two hours, the VCR doesn't care that there's a time change. It'll just tape for two hours, not caring that 3 am has become 2 am.

[anti_shrub]

6. Most TV networks start their day at 5 or 6 AM

So between 2-4 AM on the day of the time change, an hour of infomercials gets added/cut usually.

At least thats how they handle it around here...

[baby_bear]

7. I taped for 3 hours instead of 2

I figured the network had to add an extra hour of programming somewhere in there...turns out they did, at the beginning, i.e., from 1 to 2 am. Or should I say, the FIRST 1 to 2 am...so if I had just left my VCR as it was, I would have missed the second hour of what I was trying to tape.

However, if my VCR changed from daylight to standard time automatically, like my computer, I guess it would have taped three hours even though I had it programmed for two.

Thanks for everyone's insights. It's funny that the various TV guides (paper and on-line) don't account for that extra hour at all.

s_m