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One Step Away from Changing Daylight Savings Time

Posted by timothy on from the oh-that's-wise dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Congressional leaders from both parties have signed off on a proposal that will change daylight savings time in the United States as early as this year. All that is left is a signoff by President Bush. If the proposed solution becomes law, DST will be extended two months, from March to November. With many IT applications relying on accurate time information and many having automatic adjustments for DST, how will the IT world handle this change? And with the proposal reportedly taking effect this year, is there enough time to implement change?"

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  1. OSS vs. Proprietary by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'd be interested to see how quickly and how well this change gets incorporated in open source vs. closed source software.

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    Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
  2. Re:Rollback this. by Ex+Machina · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    We have this nifty concept called "conservativism," or not wasting electricity, money, and natural resources now. That's the point behind DST: using less electricity and benefitting because of it.

    You forgot the part about hating gays and poor people!

  3. Special Note for Arizona and East Indiana by Propaganda13 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Deal with it, suckers!

  4. Being Different is OK... by algf2004 · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I wish my (Canadian) government would step up and make their own damn decisions, rather than follow every silly thing the U.S. government comes up with. Now it's DST; next it'll be DMCA, then bye-bye public health care.

    If the U.S. wants to change their DST, fine. Canada doesn't need to. Everything works fine here. It's not broke, so it doesn't need to be fixed.

    So Long U.S.A, and Thanks for All the Fish.