Daylight Savings Time: The Next Y2K?

The rules change next year

[jonrichd]

Those of us in the US set our clocks back on Sunday to standard time. I hope that any applications on your websites made the transition gracefully, and are now showing the correct time and time zone.

However, the rules are set to change next year. Congress approved a change to daylight savings that will start daylight time on the second Sunday in March instead of the first Sunday in April; and will return to standard time on the first Sunday in November instead of the last Sunday in October.

Presumably, each OS vendor will release a patch so that PC clocks will change on the new day, so if your site relies on client-side time to display an hour, you're OK.

But, if you're using homebrewed or third-party code to figure out local time from universal time, you might want to start looking into making the appropriate changes so everything works correctly next spring and fall.

[Quadrille]

If it's anything like it is in Europe, no worries, unless you happen to be a hill farmer in the north of the country.

To all others, the change is just one more pointless chore - two more, actually :)

[bill]

They don't use it in Japan either. Seems a bit pointless given all the work involved to change over.