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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Congress Scrambling To Comply With Their Own Daylight Savings Changes

Good grief...

Congress is confronting a Y2K-like mess of its own making, two years after voting to start daylight-saving time (DST) three weeks early — the change goes into effect March 11 and Hill staffers are scrambling.

Congressional technology officials are hurriedly reprogramming computers, cell phones, landlines and BlackBerrys to spring forward one hour on March 11 and fall back on Nov. 4.

“People were not aware of the implications this would have as much as they were aware of Y2K,” the director of technology on the House Administration Committee, Sterling Spriggs, said, referring to fears that computers would be unable to read dates containing the year 2000.

What a bunch of clowns.

I can almost see my tax dollars flying out the window.

Comments

Does this mean that SayAnything will be set to the Central Time Zone?


The Debate is over!  Global Whining has been confirmed.


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The Whistler on February 27, 2007 at 12:14 pm
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Oh, now come on, Rob!  DST saves about 1% in electrical costs, which is a real savings for a fuel hog like Al Gore!  This could make it 1.1% even.

But me, I’ll give ‘em my ten bucks if they’ll only end DST.

Robert Perry on February 27, 2007 at 01:34 pm

If you had any idea how much it is costing my employer (large financial institution) to upgrade and test thousands of servers and devices for this, you would be astounded.

I know I was, when I saw what my small team of 100 technologists are having to go through…


[Feet make good soup!]

Marty on February 27, 2007 at 04:16 pm
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