Echoe of Y2K? To fix systems for Early Spring Foward 3/11/07

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Echoe of Y2K? To fix systems for Early Spring Foward 3/11/07

#1 Postby cycloneye » Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:00 am

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16912614/

In late 1999 all the talk was about Y2K as all systems changed from one millenimun to another.Now technnicians are racing to fix the systems for early daylight savings time that from this year it will start in the second sunday of March (March 11) after Congress approved the extension of daylight savings time from the second sunday of March to the first sunday of November.

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html
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#2 Postby gtalum » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:36 am

It's a minor non-issue. You know all those windows updates you get? They'll just insert a few extra lines of code in the next one and the Daylight Savings Time settings will be changed.
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#3 Postby cycloneye » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:38 pm

gtalum wrote:It's a minor non-issue. You know all those windows updates you get? They'll just insert a few extra lines of code in the next one and the Daylight Savings Time settings will be changed.



Agree,it's not a big deal.Only they have to set their clocks foward at 2 AM EDT on March 11 and that is it.
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#4 Postby pojo » Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:07 pm

Awe come on... I lose an hour of the b-day celebration. Thanks alot!
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#5 Postby Persepone » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:15 pm

It is "trivial" for individual PC users.

It's not "trivial" for large companies with zillions of servers, etc.

I'd watch out for anything that you do that is "time-dependant around the March 11 timeframe. Be careful of things like reservations (airlines, hotels, etc.) especially across time zones... when time is critical. There are companies out there who are not going to get their systems "patched" in time and stuff is going to go out of synchronization...

Also, realize that while many countries have a daylight savings time "equivalent," it usually begins/ends on different dates than it does here in the US, so anyone who does business across international time zones is going to go nuts with this one....
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#6 Postby coriolis » Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:58 pm

The clock in my car never gets changed twice a year and I get along just fine.
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#7 Postby ohiostorm » Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:02 am

Sometimes they make the car radios so hard to change. Its like trying to unlock a combination safe or something.
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