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DST: When clocks spring forward this year, will IT fail?
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05/02/2007 14:23:48
 
 
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>>>>We will update all client computers as well as servers and our MAC machines. Many of our applications are from different vendors to make things more complex for us. We use SQL Server and Oracle as databases. Getting everything in sync is imperative at $36,000 a minute down time.
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>>>We are in the same boat. No Macs, but many SQL Servers, plenty of Windows Servers, and Unix, Oracle, etc.
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>>>Do we need this crap? Does Congress care?
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>>It is times like this that I wish we did not have DST, as is the case in some parts of the country.
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>>Just imagine DST instead of starting on the first Sunday of April, will begin the second Sunday of March.
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>>That is reminiscent of 1973 when president Nixon pushed for something similar to save energy. Mothers protested, as it was dark when kids went to school. The administration admitted that we ended up using 5% more energy so they dropped what we affectionately called “Nixon Daylight Savings Time”.
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>>Remember the purpose of all politicians is to do something – anything- so you know they are “representing you”! :)

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>If it were for me, they could drop the whole thing altogether and not have DST at all. It is only a convention anyway. The Sun does not care. The Oith still revolves the same old way.

Time change is one of the stupidest things. If DST is so good then why don't have it all year around?
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant
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