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[YGOG] Daylight Savings Time/Are You Ready?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The U.S. Congress has advanced the date for the switch to daylight

savings time across the country to three weeks earlier. Instead of

the first Sunday in April, it will occur this weekend, Sunday, March

11. Many of our computers are preprogrammed for that April change

and it may cause some unhappy results if the time/date stamp is not

properly set up for the change this weekend.

 

While we are unlikely to see anything approaching the hysteria that

the lead-up to Y2K caused--yah, it was mainly hype--they are pointing

out that " an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure " once more

(gotta love Poor Richard). Industry specialists are advising: " Make

sure you have the latest updates for Microsoft Windows and for your

computer, PDA and smart phone. And if you have a Macintosh make sure

you have the Apple updates. "

 

What difference will an hour make more or less? Consider the recent

experience of the U.S. military, flying their latest wizbang stealth

planes on a training mission, exhibition, back from Australia. When

they crossed the International Dateline, the computers which govern

all internal components of the plane including avionics, guidance,

and weapons systems suddenly crashed. Bang! nothing. It was all

seat of the pants VFR flying until they could reboot the computers.

 

Well, we're not likely to crash and burn into the Pacific Ocean, but

even a small computer hiccough can be a nightmare.