Y2K All Over Again
By Montag | Related entries in Kitchen Sink, Satire, TechnologyThis chilling report warns of the turmoil we may face when daylight savings time is extended. Apparently it will be a huge inconvenience for dumb people:
NEW YORK – 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.
“It is unfortunately going to add a little bit of complexity to consumers,” said Reid Sullivan, vice president of the entertainment group at Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co. “In some cases, depending on the product, they may have to manually increase or decrease the time.”
Associated Press: Daylight-Saving Switch May Cause Tech Woes
Stock up on canned goods, batteries, and drinking water! Not because all computers will crash, but because there’s going to be millions of idiots running around an hour behind trying to get caught up.
Let’s hope the programmers can save us like they did on the Y2K thing. That one ended up going pretty smooth.
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