US Daylight Savings Time - a strange tale
I sat down with my IT Manager to review her workload earlier today, and one of her tasks concerned the “Exchange DST” patch she has to install. I asked what this was about, and it’s crazy! Apparently, in 2005 the US legislated to change the date on which its clocks go forward this year so that we will be 4 to 7 hours ahead for 2 weeks, instead of the usual 5 to 7 hours.
I looked around and this fact hardly seems to have surfaced in the mainstream press at all. The highest profile article I found was in the Register.
I would expect there will be all sorts of (mostly minor and niggling) caused by this. Since it’s happening in 3 weeks time, are we all prepared? I can see my company will be, from an IT perspective at least, but given the story’s low profile to date, have all the angles been thought through?
And why didn’t George Bush get Bill Gates’s permission before doing this? Surely something like this would’ve required Bill to OK it?
