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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?"

3 of 1,392 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Changing careers right now! by TheViffer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You: Hi, I am a profession time changer!!! Show me the money.
    Company A: We run our servers off GMT and do not observe daylight saving time.
    You: *beep,beep,beep* (cell phone) Hi, Boss, can i have my job back?
    Boss: Whaa?

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  2. Re:JUST SWITCH TO GMT by GenSolo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I second the motion. Somebody call Congress!

  3. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? by Alioth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It wasn't USA War II, it was World War II. It didn't only become World War II when the USA entered; Enough of the world was involved that it's considered World War II from September 1939 even though the USA wasn't involved until later.

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