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'Daylight Savings Bugs' Loom
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has front page coverage of the looming daylight savings changeover, and the bugs that may crop up this year. With the extension of daylight savings time by four weeks, some engineers and programmers are warning that unprepared companies will experience serious problems in March. While companies like Microsoft have already patched their software, Gartner is warning that bugs in the travel and banking sectors could have unforeseen consequences in the coming months. ' In addition, trading applications might execute purchases and sales at the wrong time, and cell phone-billing software could charge peak rates at off-peak hours. On top of that, the effect is expected to be felt around the world: Canada and Bermuda are conforming to the U.S.-mandated change, and time zone shifts have happened in other locales as well.'" Is this just more Y2K doomsaying, or do you think there's a serious problem here?
Me too, as we're freezing to death wondering how in the world the planet ended up in another ice age.
Or global cooling ...
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Sorry, can't agree with you there. We've got a large infrastructure in place with non-metric parts. For any given project, you should stick with one system or the other, but that is for another discussion. But I'm coming from an engineering/machining/manufacturing perspective. But you are right, the problem in general is that it is like herding cats. Can we get some smart congress people? Isn't metric and imperial (or SAE or whatever your poison is) equally arbitrary? Sure, the metric system is base 10, and the imperial system has some funny quarks, but I feel like it is getting more irrelevant as technology moves forward. Aside from some spectacular NASA screwups.
Then again, maybe you are being sarcastic?