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Boyd Ostroff August 8th, 2005 08:14 AM
New energy bill may create "mini Y2K"
 
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050808/dayli...ving_tech.html

Quote:
An energy bill President Bush is to sign Monday would start daylight time three weeks earlier and end it a week later as an energy-saving measure.

And that has technologists worried about software and gadgets that now compensate for daylight time based on a schedule unchanged since 1987.

Jeremy Rochefort August 8th, 2005 03:21 PM
And I thought the Y2K was a bunch of hoohaa!.

Now this one could have interesting repercussions! Lets see what the software boys dream up on this one!

Standby guys, you are going to have to re-tune your TV!


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