UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours

Anonymous Coward writes "In England it has been proposed that the clocks move forward by 2 hours this summer to give us more daylight time in the day, and hopefully in turn stimulate the economy. My question is what impact will this hold for computers that automatically adjust the time to British Summer Time? Could this cause another 'millennium Bug' fiasco?"

Comments

It's not just England...

[Gordonjcp]

... it's the whole of the UK. Otherwise, you'd have to adjust your clocks when you drive from one country to another.

I wouldn't expect you Mexicans to know that though.

Two? Just two?!

[Adambomb]

If you think THAT will help the economy, we're gonna spring forward FIVE FUCKING HOURS. Just think of the unwarranted extrapolations!

England != UK.

[Anonymous Coward]

England != UK. Can you lot in the United States of Florida PLEASE try to learn this.

Re:It might cause an alarm clock fiasco

[Anonymous Coward]

And the extra sunlight fades my curtains faster...

Re:Wow, who wrote this summary?

[Antony.S]

I doubt it, since they would find themselves fired within 6 months.

1940

[WillKemp]

Ah, the UK, where reinventing the wheel is a daily occurrence!

However, given the British obsession with world war two, this may be an appropriate move - it will be like returning to 1940-1945, when they had "double summer time", mainly so people could work in their gardens, growing vegetables, after they got home from work. Somehow, i don't think this is what they'll be using the extra hour of evening daylight for this time round though - it will be simply an excuse to get more drunk in the evening (if that's possible).

Re:BAU

[dkf]

There's usually somewhere in the rest of the world changes their DST policies on a yearly basis

That place usually seems to be somewhere in Argentina. For some reason, messing with exact timezone rules seems to be a national pastime there.

Re:BAU

[drunkahol]

They're trying to creep closer to the Falkland Islands?

Cheers

D

Re:Wow, who wrote this summary?

[caluml]

It still pisses me off that Fedora Linux does not recognise "Edinburgh" as a capital when selecting the TZ during installation but it does recognise USA state capitals.

Have you raised a bug about it? Thought about submitting a patch? Or are you just going to stay getting angry about it?

Re:Two hours? Boring! Try 2:37 (hours : minutes)

[Rufty]

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