March 6, 2007
IF YOU DON'T BREAK THE WINDOW PERIODICALLY THE BAKER WILL SLACK OFF:
Latest computer glitch: daylight saving time: It could cost more than $500 million to update software associated with the time change March 11, experts say (Ben Arnoldy, 3/07/07, The Christian Science Monitor)
While the prospect of missed meetings may elicit winks and sly grins, the cost borne by businesses to handle the problem is no joke. This "Y2K-lite" serves up another reminder that software design may not be agile enough to stave off more expensive and disruptive events in the future, say some analysts."The underlying message here is we built a world which is critically dependent on information technology and particularly on software where that software is simply far too inflexible to deal with real-world changes at the rate at which they occur," says Andy Kyte, an analyst with Gartner Research, a technology consulting firm in Stamford, Conn. "Y2K was one manifestation. Daylight saving time is another. They will keep coming along."
Most are likely updating their software for the first time since '99. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 6, 2007 8:44 PM
We here in Arizona take the complex technological route of eschewing mucking about with the clocks twice a year, but I guess this is too difficult for many. And yes, Orrin, I'm still running Windows 98SE on my computer (along with Fedora Core 6).
Posted by: jd watson at March 6, 2007 10:09 PMAdding an extra hour of sunlight every day for three weeks, even in March, has to have the effect on making "global warming" worse.
The problem is that Windows is prepared to change the time on one date, and Congress has now mandated another, and Microsoft isn't patching it. So anyone who uses Outlook for its calendar function, etc. (not me, by the way) is out of luck through this transition, unless their IT department did its own corrective work. Thanks, Congress!
Two manual clock changes will do it as well, but everyone you coordinate with has to do it, or chaos will result.
Posted by: HT at March 6, 2007 11:53 PMProblem? That's an excellent strategy.
Posted by: oj at March 7, 2007 7:27 AMI scored a Houston-London roundtrip flight for $199 on Jan 1 thanks to the Y2K scare. I'm not finding any such fares for the great daylight savings time crisis, sadly. :)
Posted by: kevin whited at March 7, 2007 10:28 AMPost-It notes detailing meeting information on the computer monitor pose no such problem.
Posted by: Rick T. at March 7, 2007 11:47 AM500 million? Took me a bit over an hour to update the 20 computers here. Most people writing popularly on IT matters are idiots...or maybe its that journalism inspires the idiocy...but here here regarding Arizona, lived there for many years and never had to bother with this changing clocks BS.
Posted by: Scof at March 7, 2007 2:10 PMWhat's the source of the baker and broken windows?
Posted by: erp at March 7, 2007 7:23 PM