Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Daylight Savings Extended Starting in 2007
Why is no one in the IT industry screaming bloody murder about the recently passed Daylight Savings Time extension. Due to take affect in 2007, the new act extends DST by two months.
Daylight Savings Time Extended
Folks, this is Y2K all over again. Every computer operating system, application platform, and development language containing logic for tracking time in the US now have to be updated. All of them. In less than three months.
The fallout if this isn't accomplished could be similar to some of the projected issues that would have arisen had the Y2K issue not been settled. However, I have yet to see this issue hit the radar screens of the major IT publications, blogs, forums, etc.
Are we gun shy after saying that the sky was falling in the late 90's, only to have no issues arise come 2000? Keep in mind that programs worldwide tolled endless hours rewriting millions of lines of code to prevent Y2K from becoming a real issue. In this instance, however, I haven't seen any efforts being put into resolving the problem.
Daylight Savings Time Extended
Folks, this is Y2K all over again. Every computer operating system, application platform, and development language containing logic for tracking time in the US now have to be updated. All of them. In less than three months.
The fallout if this isn't accomplished could be similar to some of the projected issues that would have arisen had the Y2K issue not been settled. However, I have yet to see this issue hit the radar screens of the major IT publications, blogs, forums, etc.
Are we gun shy after saying that the sky was falling in the late 90's, only to have no issues arise come 2000? Keep in mind that programs worldwide tolled endless hours rewriting millions of lines of code to prevent Y2K from becoming a real issue. In this instance, however, I haven't seen any efforts being put into resolving the problem.
