View Full Version : New energy bill may create "mini Y2K"


Boyd Ostroff
August 8th, 2005, 08:14 AM
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050808/daylight_saving_tech.html

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!