TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Daylight-Saving Switch May Cause Tech Woes

Daylight-Saving Switch May Cause Tech Woes

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Mon, 8 Aug 2005 01:10:37 -0400

By ANICK JESDANUN Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- When daylight-saving time starts earlier than usual
in the United States come 2007, your VCR or DVD recorder could start
recording shows an hour late.

Cell phone companies could give you an extra hour of free weekend
calls, and people who depend on online calendars may find themselves
late for appointments.

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.

- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=50981012

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