day light savings
By poppoppop111
@poppoppop111 (5731)
Canada
February 16, 2007 11:22am CST
has anyone heard of this yet. they are talking about doing the day light savings 3 weeks early which will mess up every computer, cell phone, and other things with technology. they are saying y2k which didn't happen in the year 2000 will now happen during the day light savings. is anyone worried? doens't anyone know exactly what will affect us.
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@NewHeart (528)
• Canada
18 Feb 07
why is every one worried the internet has its own internal clock and will reset all the times automatically for the computers as has all the cell phone companies. so like all the BS with y2k what you worried about...
sounds like another chicken little story the sky is falling lol...
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@poppoppop111 (5731)
• Canada
18 Feb 07
actually the automatic time changer thing in the computers are previously set so if you don't know how to change it yourself it will not work automatically.
@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
16 Feb 07
Yes, I believe the new date for the start of daylight savings time will now be March 11th. Major vendors such as Cisco, IBM and Sun have been alerting their customers to be preparing ahead and even have pages of instructions. The key will be with each individual businees, whether they have taken appropriate measures. Apparently some of the biggest problems that are forseen will be with billing, scheudling and the like. Here is a great article, complete with some instructions for everyday people for some everyday problems!!
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070206/BIZ04/702060340
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@poppoppop111 (5731)
• Canada
16 Feb 07
thanks a lot for the info. i knew this was happening but i didn't get the entire story on the news and i've been looking for more info on it. thanks for the link.
@sizzle3000 (3036)
• United States
18 Feb 07
This is rediculous. I don't see a problem with day light saving time now. I have enough problem getting used to the change over and now you want to make it three weeks early. I say stop already. Get a grip. Why do we always have to mess with things. Is there a problem with time now no no let it alone. Y2K never happened every time they and who are they anyway, say there is a desaster there is no desaster. Tell they to stop the madness.
@mimatexas (1818)
• United States
17 Feb 07
I didn't know the daylight savings was coming up 3 weeks earlier and I haven't heard about messing up our computer or cell phones! I don't think we should be worried, nothing happened in year 2000 so I don't think it will affect this time.
@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
17 Feb 07
as u said, they warned us about y2k and nothing happened..so i won't listen to apocalypse proclaimers now lol. I am sure nothing will happen poppoppop111.
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@thunderofsins (738)
• United States
16 Feb 07
People get all worked up over nothing! If your computer automatically updates the time for daylight savings all you have to do is manually shut off that feature or re-set the date for the new date. The world is not going to shut down, just like it didn't on January 1, 2000.
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