02.02.07
Y2K7?
Congress in its infinite wisdom has made a largely arbitrary change to the rather arbitrary Daylight Savings Time system as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. When this law goes into effect in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March) and will end one week later (2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November) than what had traditionally occurred. To accommodate the DST change, most systems must be patched. Otherwise, timestamps will be off, and some applications may fail to work. This could effect a variety of systems including operating systems, servers, cell phones, routers, and databases.
I’ve just begun digging into Microsoft’s documentation on this issue, so more info to come, but there seems to be some nonsense about updating enterprise servers before enterprise workstations. I also am really unclear on how this effects Windows Mobile smart phones. Hopefully I’ll get those parts worked out soon and get back with a follow up post…
More info: edgeblog, Microsoft