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Impact of Daylight Savings Time Changes?
jason718 writes "With the pending changes to U.S. Daylight Savings Time, what impact will those changes have to existing systems and their applications? Are some operating systems more open than others with regard to the configuration of Daylight Savings Time start and end dates, or will we need yet another update or patch to modify the internal calendar?"
The sleep patterns of Slashdotters will be messed up... Oh, wait a minute...
Cause more dupes.
I live in Arizona, you insensitive clod!
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Did someone turn the clock back to the discussion we already had on this issue?
But banks and financial institutions have all had their software built for daylight savings time ending sooner! Now everything will be out of whack as the banks and computers and the electronic grid system will think it's an hour later than it is!
Planes will fall out of the sky! The banks will collapse! LIFE AS WE KNOW IT WILL CEASE! We need to panic people! PANIC! Start hiring floors and floors of programmers to change all the code out there.
Ok, maybe not...
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
Unfortunately, due to inconsistent implementation of Daylight Savings, an erroneous timestamp will cause the system to place this post significantly further down the list. Rest assured, though, that this post was made an hour before the timestamp shows, and was, therefore, first.
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You'll need an update to /usr/share/zoneinfo/ . Expect the next Debian release in late 2012 to support this.
It will destroy civilization. The foretold second coming of your lord and savior will be imminent. Mankind is doomed. Invest in underground bunkers and stockpile cans of food and MREs!
...but don't worry. Daylight Savings Pwnage is a common occurrence, within and without Slashdot.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
One reason to stay out of Hawaii: Electricity is expensive as hell.
Maybe we should start boycotting all /. dupes in an effort to bring attention to this pressing matter.
Err... wait.
Nothing disturbs me more than blind loyalism towards some unrealistic and over-idealistic notion of one's nationality.
That's not nice. Us four-digit ID folks shouldn't pick on the six digit guys like that. They're gullible, I tell you. Gullible!
Program Intellivision!
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.
It's be simple to implement: day = oldDay + jesus.lifespan()
Except when you get the compile-time error: ERROR: jesus is not defined
But how will I find an update for my gremlin? Will I have to be careful not to feed him after 11 for a few weeks? It's all so confusing!
Posted from the wireless couch.
>>would think that it would take the Evil Empire about 30 seconds to distribute a patch for Windows,
Hey, here's a new conspiracy theory! Maybe this is all a scheme by MS. They'll patch it, but only for Windows 2003 and newer systems, in an attempt to force everyone to upgrade. Pure brilliance, I say!
(Why not, they seem to think people will upgrade for IE7.)
Microsoft has just released their much anticipated hands-free cordless mouse. Warning, it may hurt a little at first.
I turned my clock back a half hour... I'll never need to change it.
This could be good for our energy situation 'cuz that extra hour of sun each day will let us produce more corn, which we can turn into ethanol.
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