For better or worse, the end of this year's Daylight Saving Time, and other briefs

In the past, I've done posts in March and the beginning of November about the start of Daylight Saving Time here in the US and how it means there's one programming day where TV channels only have to program for 23 hours. Then, in November, we shift back, which means there's a day with 25 hours. Usually, I've been able to figure out how TCM is going to program either for the missing hour or for the extra hour, the latter seemingly disproportionately with one of the Some of the Best shorts.

Unfortunately, all of the "upgrades" to the TCM site have meant that their online schedule is more useless than before. I decided recently on a lark to try to figure out how that extra hour is going to get filled tonight, and was disappointed to see that TCM's daily schedule is even worse than before. (Surprisingly, it was already four years ago that I complained about anothre site change.) Now, the site not longer gives the running times of movies. Instead, it only gives the length of the time slot into which TCM has put a movie. So, as an example, Young Dr. Kildare, airing as part of the Saturday Matinee, starts at 10:08 AM and has a running time of 67 minutes. But the TCM schedule site simply gives 1 hour, 23 minutes, with the next part of the matinee starting at 11:30 AM (so this is off by one minute).

As far as DST goes, the clock switches back at 2:00 AM to a second 1:00 AM, which here on the east coast means 0600 UTC. That should be during the first showing of Noir Alley, which because of the Two For One lineup is listed as beginning at 12:30 AM instead of midnight. That movie, Nobody Lives Forever, runs 100 minutes. But Eddie Muller always has an extended intro and outro, so the movie is in a two hour slot. Or is it a three hour slot. It's followed on the official schedule by Soylent Green at 2:30 AM and another dystopic Charlton Heston film, The Omega Man at 4:15 AM. The logical thing to do is to fill up the extra hour between Noir Alley and Soylent Green.

But then I looked though some of the listing sites, and one of them suprisingly gets things wrong by putting Deep Valley into the Noir Alley slot. I haven't been able to find out much about other movie channels or the FAST streaming services, either. Why everybody seems to want to keep their medium-term schedules secret is a mystery to me.