The important thing for politicians to "get" now is that it is highly disruptive to keep changing the rules. In reading up on the potential effects of the DST change, I encountered a story about how Australia made a one-time change to accommodate their national sporting games, and how disruptive that was for business processes.
Incidentally, I was interviewed on WKAR about the DST change and I confidently predicted that my Treo 650 would be fine, since it gets its time from the network. We taped the interview on the Wednesday before the event. The next day, Verizon paged its customers urging them to check on the Web for software updates. Smartphones including Treos were listed as needing updates. I deliberately did not update my phone and it sprang forward just fine. I suppose it's possible they were covering the case where you would use the device as a PDA and not be on the Verizon network for a time. (Scott Pohl edited my remark out before broadcast.)
/rich
On 4/4/07, Chris Wolf <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Supposedly part of the law that enabled this change was that it might not be
permanent. If Congress decides there was too little energy savings from it,
there is a provision to revert to the old schedule, so we might have to go
through this all again!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hoort, Brian [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:18 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [MSUNAG] Daylight saving shift fails to curb energy use
>
> Daylight saving shift fails to curb energy use
>
> The early onset of daylight saving time in the United States
> this year may have been for naught.
> The move to turn the clocks forward by an hour on March 11
> rather than the usual early April date was mandated by the
> U.S. government as an energy-saving effort.
> But other than forcing millions of drowsy American workers
> and school children into the dark, wintry weather three weeks
> early, the move appears to have had little impact on power usage.
> "We haven't seen any measurable impact," said Jason Cuevas,
> spokesman for Southern Co., one of the nation's largest power
> companies, echoing comments from several large utilities.
>
> More...
>
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6172785.html?tag=nl.e589
>
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