March Madness of the Daylight Savings variety |
Forget basketball, the real March Madness could be happening next Sunday, March 11 at 2am, in the form of a Daylight Savings Change.
Devices from the tiniest BlackBerry to the largest mainframe computer must be updated to ensure their internal clocks “spring forward” by one hour at the right moment rather than on the old date, which has been written into countless programs. Similarly, they must be reprogrammed to revert to standard time a week later than usual, on Nov. 4.
Who do we blame if this results in technological confusion? Congress, of course!
Google Calendar + Google Homepage + events
We’ll get back to this March daylight savings stuff in a second, but something more productive first. Have you checked out AmbientClock (free gadget)? If you use Google Calendar and the Google Homepage you can see your events at a glance, including help with drive times commute. Pretty handy. Thanks Lifehacker.
No daylight savings concerns here, you?
I’m not worried that I’ll wake up next Sunday and find any of our computers confused. My wind-up watch, which needs to be manually set will be wrong, but it’s showing the wrong date now too (pause to change from the 30th to the 3rd). The Washignton Post story makes it sound a little like another Y2K scare for some businesses:
At T. Rowe Price, about two dozen information-technology staffers have been coordinating with more than 160 vendors to make sure the 200 computer applications used in the Baltimore brokerage firm’s offices will operate seamlessly March 11 and beyond.
Yikes.
Perhaps a little hyperbolic, but just remember Y2K? The biggest non-event event in recent computing history. Back to basketball, the real March madness.
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It should be noted that Google Calendar–at least parts of it–suffer from the DST bug. Specifically, recurring events set to begin between March 11 and April 14 2007 will sometimes (but not always) be off by an hour. Be sure to double-check the times of any important events for the next few weeks.
-Charlie
Comment by Charlie Wood — March 3, 2007 @ 8:35 am PST
Thanks for the head’s up on that, Charlie.
Comment by TDavid — March 4, 2007 @ 8:01 am PST