A mini Y2K on the way? Something to consider as we set our clock one hour ahead.
[FONT size=6]The New Daylight Saving Time: A Mini Y2K?[/FONT]
The DST change will be here soon -- clocks will "spring forward" an hour on March 11 and not "fall behind" an hour until Nov. 4 -- but the change wasn't sprung on the world suddenly. It was authorized in a new Energy Policy Act signed into law by President Bush on Aug. 8, 2005. Nevertheless, many people forgot about it.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) starts three weeks earlier this year in most parts of the United States and there are fears that the change will cause problems for unprepared computer systems and digital devices.
[P nd="24"]If you think the scenario sounds familiar to the so-called Y2K problem that gripped the world in the days leading up to Jan. 1, 2000, you're not alone.
[SPAN id=intelliTxt] [P nd="1"]One of the first to sound the alarm about the potential for IT calamity posed by the Y2K situation was Canadian speaker, writer and consultant Peter de Jager. He warned that systems doing date-related processing might be stymied when the calendar suddenly ran out of dates beginning with "19" as 1999 ended.
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