Taking steps to squash daylight-saving bug

For three weeks in March and April, Microsoft Corp. warns that users of its calendar programs “should view any appointments … as suspect until they communicate with all meeting invitees.”

Wow, that’s sort of jarring–is something treacherous afoot?

Actually, it’s a potential problem in any software that was programmed before a 2005 law decreed that daylight-saving time would start three weeks earlier and end one week later, beginning this year. Congress decided that more early-evening daylight would translate into energy savings.

Software created before 2005 is set to automatically advance its timekeeping by one hour on the first Sunday in April, not the second Sunday in March. That’s March 11 this year.

Chicago Tribune

Microsoft’s DST Help.

One thought on “Taking steps to squash daylight-saving bug”

  1. This is going to wreak havoc in more ways than many people realize.

    Just when I started to get used to more light in the morning…

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