Re: Daylight-Saving Switch May Cause Tech Woes

By ANICK JESDANUN Associated Press Writer

> NEW YORK (AP) -- When daylight-saving time starts earlier than usual > in the United States come 2007, your VCR or DVD recorder could start > recording shows an hour late. > Cell phone companies could give you an extra hour of free weekend > calls, and people who depend on online calendars may find themselves > late for appointments. > An energy bill President Bush is to sign Monday would start daylight > time three weeks earlier and end it a week later as an energy-saving > measure. > And that has technologists worried about software and gadgets that now > compensate for daylight time based on a schedule unchanged since 1987.

Sounds like a blast for consultants to fix software/systems which can't handle the date change. Yippie!

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