Posted on 02/06/2007 11:44:25 AM PST by snarkpup
US plans to change daylight saving hours this spring could wreak havoc on computer systems, Gartner claims. The analyst firm said utomated systems could run haywire this March.
Disruptions could affect calendars, billing programs and security systems as well as undermining automated trading systems.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
I like the change..... More daylight in the evening which is more useful than in the morning. I already got my computers changed for the update. Pretty easy with Unix systems.
Y2K all over again. I'm underwhelmed
They're not planning to.....they're going to.
Oh good grief!! Don't any of these people know how to change their clock and calendar ..?? Sheeeeeeesh!!
Should I re-stock the Y2K bunker?
I don't think Daylight Savings Time needs to be altered...but this is idiotic.
What's the problem? We've got our Solaris patches, our Oracle patches, our Java patches.
It only takes about 12 hours to apply them to each server, and there are just a few thousand servers to do.
We'll just need a couple of weekend outages.
Move the time 1/2 hour, then leave it alone!
I've still got 50 rolls of toilet paper and three cases of MRE's left over from Y2K.
Well, this time the libs really will be able to say "Bush did it!"
I already drank up all the bottled water I saved for Y2K during the Power Blackout of '03.
However, the UK datacenter managers were really annoyed when they were told they were not impacted, but had to apply the patches anyway, 'just in case'.
I agree!!!
if they could find enough old programmers who could write binary and COBAL to save the world from the 00-doom I'm not worried. As a matter of fact I just set my Windows XP clock ahead an hour myself to get an early start on happy hour.
Then get up earlier, and leave my clock alone. I prefer more light in the morning.
12 hours?
I hope you mean 1/2 hour!
I've never heard of a patch that took 12 hours to apply ...
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Oh no, don`t tell me I`m going to have to re-build my 300 foot underground concrete, lead lined and steel reinforced bomb shelter that I dismantled after Y2K. Getting the 10 years of canned good out of there was bad enough, now I am going to have to put it all back in? Actualy I was going to do it anyway in preparation of Hellary becoming next POTUS.
How about recognize the clock is based on physical astronomical positioning - and leave it alone!
I like the change.
I'd make it TWO hours if it were up to me.
I'd also make it all year.
I don't care if the rest of the globe doesn't like it, I do.
The biggest problem id that European airpotrs have refused to allow US carriers to adjust their slot departures and arrivals in Europe until the first week of April....Thus this is what is going to happen.....
Say Continental Flight 123 leaves FRA arrives at 1200 arrives at IAH at 1400....FRA is not allowing CO to adjust the departure time to reflect the DST in March. So CO 123 wil lstill leave FRA at 1200, problem is it will arrive in IAH at 1500, not 1400. The one hour later arrival will cause massive misconnects in IAH...ie if you need 60 minutes to connect from I to D and the AUS flight leaves IAH at 1530, it will misconnect from FRA with the new forced 1500 arrival time.....
It's a done deal.
Then just change your schedule LOL
So do I and I would make it all year too.
Why not just jump GMT ahead 1 hour then leave it alone.
Cmdtime 3 is easy-to-use command-line utility which adjusts computer's date and time via Internet Time Servers. It's recommended to use it either standalone, or in batch-files, or with external shedulers.Download Cmdtime 3 (57k Zip archive)
I like it because most of the utilities I found wanted to stay resident in the System Tray... Rather than synchonizing at given periods of time, for me it's enough to synchronize the clock at Windows startup.
Apparently MS came out with their patch in January but it failed.
I'm going to save my hour until I really need it. What will you do with yours?
Didn't we hear this same warning approximately, oh, seven years ago? All the computers were gonna crash, water systems go down, commerce halt, and civilization was facing its ultimate doom?
As far as I'm concerned, if moving the clocks ahead an hour means THAT much to the politicians, just move the clock ahead one hour NOW, and LEAVE the freaking thing alone!
"But my kids will have to go to school in the dark in the winter."
"Suck it up, Princess, EVERY kid north of the Oregon/Cali border ends up going to school when it's dark out in the wintertime. Some in the further north regions GO HOME in the dark, too. Grow up!"
Daylight saving time has been proven to CAUSE a major spike in road carnage due to overtired drivers. There is a slight (not even close to commensurate) dip in the carnage stats when DST is reversed. This current scheme is going to exacerbate BOTH the extremes of the stats. MORE carnage when begun, LESS decrease when over.
"The grain don't care what time it is!" No, DST was definitely NOT put in for the farmers. Canada's Saskatchewan and several farming states do NOT conform to DST, as there is no reason for them to.
As far as I am concerned, DST is nothing but another attempt by the government to condition the public into obeying inane edicts. DST might have made sense during the first world war, but it serves NO purpose in our 24/7/365 society of today, other than disruption.
Just go forward an hour and leave it there. Pick a time, stick with it. It's all relative anyway.
Naw, he just got rolled again. This was part of the Energy Bill of last year (which still didn't allow us to drill in ANWR). It gives tax breaks to Big Oil if they build refineries, but since has been used as a stick to beat the President over the head with.
Consider yourself lucky you don't have to use corn cobs.
Not to mention the extra hour of daylight will burn up my lawn, we're already restricted to watering once a week. ;oP
I say this out of ignorance. Why don’t folks get up an hour earlier or later, depending on the season, and keep the same clock time.
Since I live in the tropics, our clocks don’t change because we are between 7 and 9 degrees from the equator. We only have about 1-1/2 hours difference between spring up and fall down…or whatever the saying is.
Many folks I know in the U.S. don’t bother to change their clocks. They just remember to add or subtract time.
It's a stupid change. There's no more daylight anywhere, all it changes is what your clock says while the sun is at some point in the sky it was already going to be at. Daylight savings is hands down the stupidest damn thing mankind has ever come up with.
If not for DST, sunrise in summer would be at 4:30. Who in their right mind, (farmers aside) gets up that early? It's wasted.
Better take another look. We have to change all our Unix servers. The OS portion is pretty easy, but LOTS of applications require work as well.
patch your time servers and use ntp.
Actually this one probably is going to screw things up. Mostly because of the lack of warning, Y2K was a non-problem because the software industry was working on it for years, most software companies didn't even bother to think about the new DST start and end times until December or so, and the MS patches for it are a little iffy.
java, system controllers, firmware, bios...lotsa fun things to mess with. Sucks too cause tzupdater.jar does not suport 1.3.1
Because then, in most parts of the US the sun wouldn't rise in winter until 8:00 or later.
>>Y2K all over again. I'm underwhelmed<<
If we had not fixed it, you would be quite OVERwhelmed.
It saves energy on a large scale from what I understand.
I like DST.
Why? Because I often work late in summer. And with DST, June 21 sunset is at 9:02, not 8:02. If I have to go to work at the time the clock says, at least with DST I have an hour more daylight when I get home from work.
Just another unintended consequence of the do-gooders in Congress, who would bring back the 55 mph speed limit if they could get away with it. Just another unfunded mandate of the federal gooberment.
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