Looks like the new US Federal energy bill is going to extend Daylight Savings Time by several weeks. How wonderful. Has anyone considered how this might affect IT operations? Ah, maybe software vendors will just issue patches for this change and everything will be hunky-dory, right? See the link for a discussion of some of the issues involved...
But instead of passing legislation to extend daylight savings time, why not legislate something really useful instead? Like making pi exactly equal to 3.14?
Oh wait, I think they tried that already...
Or how about passing some legislation to improve primary education? For example, everyone knows that 50% of the time and effort elementary school teachers spend each week is expended trying to help students understand once again why the nineteenth century began in 1800 and not in 1900, why the eighteenth century began in 1700 and not in 1800, and so on. Why not pass a law decreeing that each century is named after the first two digits of the year? Just think of the positive effect such a law would have on our educational systems. Students would start to think the world around them actually made sense instead of being organized along principles that make no sense. With their hearts freed and their minds soaring, students would be more receptive to learning and teachers could concentrate on teaching them something really useful, like why you move the clock back (or is it forward?) in Spring (or is it Fall)? and how Daylight Savings Time increases the number of hours of daylight without having any affect on the rotation of the Earth...
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