[ClearCase_guy]

I agree. I feel like I'm missing something. In the past few weeks I've heard a lot of chatter about the steps one should take in order to deal with the upcoming time change.

I have never had to do much of anything before. So why is March 2007 such a special event???

[gidget7]

Supposedly, because it is happening 2 weeks early this year. To me, it seems like another Y2K scare. I could be wrong.

[rarestia]

It's happening 3 weeks before it used to occur! Your operating system, among other things, was programmed to change the time on the first Sunday of April, not the second Sunday in March. Thus... the rub.

[Fighting Irish]

03112007

ok...that's not a binary possibility

if you add 2=7 you get 9

then push the 11 behind you get ..... 911

3 stands for March


HOLY CRAP! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

[P-40]

So why is March 2007 such a special event???

We will revert to 'summer time' earlier this year and revert to 'winter time' later this year. If enough people would contact their legislator we could stay on 'summer time' for good.

[capydick]

So why is March 2007 such a special event???

If you use the Outlook Calendar for tracking appointments and time management, it's a big deal. Every Outlook appointment you have accepted will be off by an hour and your day will be scewed up. Also - Treo's, Blackberries, etc, need this patch if they are synching with your Outlook server. It is Y2K-like in it's impact, but, like Y2K, very manageable.

[MarkL]

So why is March 2007 such a special event???

Because Congress passed a law changing the start and end dates of DST this year. This year, it starts 2 weeks early, the second Sunday in March, rather than the first Sunday in April, extending it from the last Sunday in October to the first Sunday in November.

This is especially important for networked computers, and distributed database operations, as well as time dependent applications, like time cards, batch processing operations, calendars, etc...

Mark