It’s funny how this seems to have sprung up on everyone so unexpectedly. Not only do I remember hearing about this nearly half a year ago (probably somewhere around the time that we were ‘falling back’), I had read several different articles talking about the problems that would cause headaches for IT specialists. I’ve even glanced at an article that suggested the magnitude of the change to DST is far greater than the Y2K bug. Despite the scope of this change, affecting almost every single system and application, there is little news about the implications, and not only is the average person probably going to be left an hour behind, several companies will probably have to deal with band-aid fixes.

I support the idea in principle, and think that the powers that be were honestly trying to do good things when they made this change. However, in typical government/bureaucratic fashion, I don’t think the downstream affects of this type of change were fully understood or considered. Either that, or the powers that be simply didn’t care…

If you’re worried or need help with DST, this link might help.

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