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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. BST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe programmers in the UK are accustomed to assuming that localtime always equals UTC.

    You are ignorant because you have never heard of British Summer Time.

    And the submitter is a stupid fuck, because it doesn't know about either BST or actually what the y2k issue was.