'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?

Comments

Solaris will be a problem?

[multipartmixed]

Now that SunSolve patch access has been restricted to support-contract-holders-only..

How the hell do we update our old Solaris boxes that haven't had support in years?

Will they distribute new zone info files separately?

Re:minutes, hours and days are NOT fixed values.

[lucabrasi999]

Due to the way our (broken) ancestral time system works, there are corrections: there are minutes that have 59 seconds or 61 seconds...Then there are DST, where there are days that have 23 or 25 hours.

And there's Nature's simultaneous Four Day Rotation in One Earth Rotation. And don't you DARE try to match it!