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<blockquote data-quote="SeniorGeek" data-source="post: 170129" data-attributes="member: 4823"><p>The new Daylight Saving Time schedule could be a miniature version of Y2K.</p><p> </p><p>Y2K was not the crisis many had feared, because every nerd and geek became involved in heading off a crisis. The Y2K changes were about the ability to count beyond 99, but the DST changes are about what time it is (or will be) on any particular day in a particular place.</p><p> </p><p>I think the change in the U.S. Daylight Saving Time schedule could create some of the types of problems we <u>thought</u> would happen on 01/01/2000, such as machine-controlled processes that happen at the wrong time. For instance: bank transactions that arrive after a cutoff time, so an entire payroll does not get credited to individual accounts on the right day. (I work in a building that has a timer system for most of the lights. If I arrive before 6AM, none of the wall switches work.)</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html" target="_blank">About Daylight Saving Time - History, rationale, laws & dates</a> has more info about Daylight Saving time, including the new dates and some history.</p><p> </p><p>Two things that have a personal effect on me:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I have an expensive watch that changes the time for me. The manufacturer does not yet have a way to update the watch.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Because Winter officially ends the 20th or 21st of March each year, a week or two <u>after</u> the clocks move forward, this saying just does <strong>NOT</strong> sound right:</li> </ol><p><span style="font-size: 22px">WINTER AHEAD, FALL BACK</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SeniorGeek, post: 170129, member: 4823"] The new Daylight Saving Time schedule could be a miniature version of Y2K. Y2K was not the crisis many had feared, because every nerd and geek became involved in heading off a crisis. The Y2K changes were about the ability to count beyond 99, but the DST changes are about what time it is (or will be) on any particular day in a particular place. I think the change in the U.S. Daylight Saving Time schedule could create some of the types of problems we [U]thought[/U] would happen on 01/01/2000, such as machine-controlled processes that happen at the wrong time. For instance: bank transactions that arrive after a cutoff time, so an entire payroll does not get credited to individual accounts on the right day. (I work in a building that has a timer system for most of the lights. If I arrive before 6AM, none of the wall switches work.) [URL="http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html"]About Daylight Saving Time - History, rationale, laws & dates[/URL] has more info about Daylight Saving time, including the new dates and some history. Two things that have a personal effect on me: [LIST=1] [*]I have an expensive watch that changes the time for me. The manufacturer does not yet have a way to update the watch. [*]Because Winter officially ends the 20th or 21st of March each year, a week or two [U]after[/U] the clocks move forward, this saying just does [B]NOT[/B] sound right:[/LIST][SIZE=6]WINTER AHEAD, FALL BACK[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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