balam - 5:06 am on Mar 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

So the girlfriend came home from work today, relating this story...

Over the weekend the IT department patched all the XP machines, roughly 300. Today, throughout the course of the day, those machines jumped either an hour forward or back...

The impact? Company operations - across three countries - was brought to a complete standstill. "Millions" of dollars lost. Client projects, which can't proceed without the girlfriend's employer being fully functional, shut down...

Glad I don't have to deal with this... :)