One Step Away from Changing Daylight Savings Time

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?"

Comments

My own preference

[ZoneGray]

What I'd prefer is that they passed a law making the hours between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm shorter.

Re:My own preference

[snorklewacker]

I work nights, you insensitive clod!

Answers

[DanThe1Man]

Badly. No.

Score yourself at home. How did you do?

Re:This is spectacular

[ottergoose]

Next thing you know Bush will make us use a calandar based on how many days it has been since Jesus died. That would be absurd.

Re:They should do away with 24-hour clock

[generic-man]

They should break up the day into 100 hours instead of stupid 24. Potential benefits:
- Working 9 to 5 becomes a breeze.

Are you insane? With a 100 hour day, working "9 to 5" becomes a 96-hour day, equivalent to 23.04 of your Classic American Non-Metric Hours. That's no good.

This could be a Hallmark event

[nizo]

This isn't a problem; simply get Hallmark to create yet another holiday. Something catchy like, "Don't burn your house down" day to help people remember to change their batteries (maybe even with a pocket to hold replacement batteries).

Re:This could be a Hallmark event

[robertjw]

Something catchy like, "Don't burn your house down" day to help people remember to change their batteries

Good idea, except we will need two holidays, one for spring and one for fall. We should name them something similar so people will never remember which is which (like memorial day and labor day). Maybe "Don't burn your house down" day in the spring and "Save your life" day in the fall.

Re:This could be a Hallmark event

[Martin Blank]

That's a Commie holiday. We don't support Commie holidays here in the US.

Commie.

Re:This could be a Hallmark event

[KylePflug]

I have an even better idea. We'll call it "Every six months day". It will happen every six months. You'll know when it's that day again because that's the day you change your fire alarm batteries.

Re:This could be a Hallmark event

[WindBourne]

If you think that we speak English in the USA, then you obviously have not been here (nor did you capitalize the English). We speak something, but these days, I do not think it is English. Just listen to GWB.

YOU must be the terrorist leader( or if you are older, then you are a commie pinko ).

Re:This could be a Hallmark event

[The Snowman]

That's a Commie holiday. We don't support Commie holidays here in the US.

No, we "celebrate" Labor Day by forcing our blue collar workers to their jobs to run the retail stores while everyone else enjoys sales, promotions, and extended shopping hours.

Celebrate Labor Day by working! Amazing!

Re:Why the IAFC is against the change

[eln]

The biggest problem with this change is that Daylight Savings Time will now last much longer than Standard Time. Since it would then be DST most of the time, Daylight Savings Time should be renamed "Standard Time." Of course, that leaves the problem with what to call the old "Standard Time." My suggestions are as follows:

- Daylight Wasting Time
- Congress Has Too Much Time on Their Hands Time

Re:I know how I'll handle it...

[F452]

Now if there were only a way to automagically delete all occurrences of the word "automagically." What are you: Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer? Does our world frighten and confuse you? Your cell phone updates from the network because of software. There aren't little demons in there doing it.

They should change the names, too.

[Robotech_Master]

If we're going to be in Daylight Savings Time 9 months out of the year, they should call Daylight Savings Time "Standard" time, instead, and change Standard Time to "Daylight Wasting Time" (DWT).

No DST worked for me!

[Dr. Transparent]

Blessed AZ. Giving the finger to you time switchers the world over.

I agree no DST is awesome.

Re:This is spectacular

[l810c]

That would set us back decades.

It would be the 1970's all over again

Re:Why the IAFC is against the change

[omeomi]

Daylight Savings Time should be renamed "Standard Time." Of course, that leaves the problem with what to call the old "Standard Time." My suggestions are as follows:

We'll just call it "Standard Time Full Speed" and "Standard Time Hi-Speed"...that'll solve the confusion.