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Impact of Daylight Savings Time Changes?

Posted by Zonk on from the lots-of-work dept.

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?"

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  1. I expect it to... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cause more dupes.

  2. I'm feeling this already by fixer007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did someone turn the clock back to the discussion we already had on this issue?

  3. Re:Who cares? by sgant · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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