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Daylight Savings Change Proposed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the time-to-patch-some-code dept.

AveryRegier writes "CNN is reporting that Congress has added an amendment to the Energy Bill to extend daylight-savings time by two months. They expect to "save the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil a day." How long it would take for the associated energy savings to overcome the cost to make, test, and deploy the necessary code changes? How would the cost of this change compare with Y2K? Does most date routines' reliance on GMT make this just an issue of presenting the right time to the user?"

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  1. Ooh. I think you're a terrorist. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Enemy combatant at the very least.

    Your either with us or against us. Your question indicates that you are definitely against us.

  2. This won't affect salaried/exempt people. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Personally, daylight savings time doesn't affect me at all. I show up to work after I wake up well rested (no alarm clock), and I leave when I'm done with my day's work (sometimes the sun's up and it's early afternoon; sometimes it's midnight and after dark).

    That's the tradeoff of being an hourly vs. salaried person. Since I'm Excempt, and get no overtime, I'm not on the clock.

  3. Re:Creating a Boom? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    > How would the cost of this change compare with Y2K?

    Next to nothing. All the work has already been done to accomodate Summer Time changes worldwide:

    ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/

    Almost every *ix flavor already does the right thing. Change a data file and you're done

  4. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? by Storlek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hmm... I'm no expert in this field, but isn't "midnight" the middle of the night?

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  5. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The same way that a Hamburger is made of ham...

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  6. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? by Alioth · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Umm, World War II was from September 1939...

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  7. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? by Storlek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The same way that a Hamburger is made of ham...

    <pedantic> The hamburger got its name because it originated in Hamburg, Germany. Unless time was invented in some town called Midnight, your analogy falls on its face. :) </pedantic>

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