Did you know--Daylight Saving time will arrive a little earlier this year????

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I was looking online just now and found this article. I'm one of those people that look forward to April's daylight saving time change. That also let's me know warmer weather is right around the corner.. :) Well, if you didn't know, This year daylight saving time arrives a little earlier this year. March 11, 2007 and will stay a little later also, Until November 4, 2007. It's bringing a problem along with it that could affect everything from stock trades to airline schedules to your Blackberry... Software created before the law mandating the change passed in 2005 is set to automatically advance its timekeeping by one hour on the first Sunday in April, not the second Sunday in March. Congress decided that more early evening daylight would translate into energy savings. The result is a glitch reminiscent of the Y2K bug, when cataclysmic crashes were feared if the computers interpreted the year 2000 as 1900 and couldn't reconcile time apprearing to move backwards. If banks and other institutions aren't properly prepared, automatic stock trades reportedly might happen at the wrong hour, buildings that unlock at a certain time could stay shut, and airline flight schdules could be scrambled. For the three weeks this 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: That's because Outlook may not work the way users expect it to. The problem won't show up only in computers. It will affect plenty of non-networked devices that store the time and automatically adjust for daylight saving, like some digital watches and clocks. But in those instances the result will be a nuisance. (adjust the time manually, or wait 3 weeks) rather than something that might throw a wrench in the works. Now with that all being said, Did you know that daylight saving time was going to be here next month? What do you think might happen? What are your thoughts.... Please share...