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UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-time-is-now dept.

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?"

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  1. England != UK. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Re:It might cause an alarm clock fiasco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the extra sunlight fades my curtains faster...

  3. Re:Wow, who wrote this summary? by Antony.S · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. Re:BAU by dkf · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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