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A few weeks ago, I received a high-priority e-mail from a colleague. The purpose of the e-mail was to inquire whether I had made adequate preparations for the Daylight Saving Time Bug. I was asked whe

By Paul Rolich | Updated on February 28, 2007

A few weeks ago, I received a high-priority e-mail from a colleague. The purpose of the e-mail was to inquire whether I had made adequate preparations for the Daylight Saving Time Bug. I was asked whether I had installed the appropriate patches and hot fixes. I was asked whether I had updated my disaster recovery plan in light of this new problem.

I was taken aback. I was aware daylight saving time (DST) in the United States was going to be observed differently in 2007. I presumed patches to reflect those new dates would be distributed. I even had spent a few minutes wondering whether it really would affect any of the applications for which I was responsible. But I never thought of it as a bug–or a real problem. After all, the server and client systems I support have little check boxes to adjust automatically for daylight saving time. Wouldn’t un-checking that box and then manually adjusting the time on the appropriate date serve as a work-around for the bug? Apparently not. There must be something much bigger going on here–at least according to a lot of the media hype I have been starting to receive.

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