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

Rollback this.

[Seumas]

WHY?!

I, for one, like when DST rolls back. I like it to get dark early in the fall. If we're going to have NINE months of daylight savings time, why even have it at all? Just move the clocks ahead forever.

I'm not one of these people who get all excited because the sun stays up longer when I get out of work. I like it to be dark by 5:00pm or 6:00pm. It has a unique feel to it rather than getting off work and still having four or five hours of daylight. And I like having it get light earlier in the morning, rather than later.

The entire point of DST is just retarded. Don't change it. GET RID OF IT. It's 2005. We have these nifty fucking things called ELECTRIC LIGHTS now. You can use them to, like, see when it's dark. It's really fucking amazing.

OH! And I know what else...! Why don't we just stop with the whole seasons thing and make it summer year round! We surely don't need seasons! And let's alter the clocks so that it's actually always some time between 9am and 5pm every hour of the day! Ooh ooh-- and we should get rid of weekends, too. Weekends cut into productivity!