Daylight saving glitch leaves hangover for some
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There was no major chaos, but some devices did miss the memo from Congress and fell back a week too soon.
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Or another fried raccoon... Gun-touting buffoons and a pesky raccoon were among some of the more bizarre reasons why a number of Americans suffered power and comms outages during the New Year period.â¦
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On his blog today, Joakim Nygard has posted about the use (or disuse) of time zones in PHP:   The problem with not handling timezones correctly is not apparent in the usual case of the webserver and the database server being in the same timezone. [...] Often a specific timezone is assumed for displaying date and time. This could very well be incorrect for a large number of visitors. If the database server is in yet another timezone, things begin to get out of sync.   He mentions the time zone functionality that MySQL offers too, but notes that it cannot be relied on either. Thankfully, there's is a bit of hope in PHP5 (as of 5.1 in fact) - the date_default_timezine_set function. He includes an example of the function in use, making it simple to get the correct date and time automatically with the date() function without having to do any hacks to discover the correct time zone.
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Backyard barbecue season is winding to a close and it's time to say goodbye to daylight-saving time.
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By Andrew Kantor, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Mar. 10--Daylight-saving time arrives early this year, and some local companies are preparing for the potential pitfalls it brings.
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The move to daylight-saving time in the U.S. arrived without major troubles for IT operations.
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What's the real risk? Comment If the fuss currently being made about Dubbya's attempt to save energy by making the US go to Daylight Saving Time a fortnight early reminds me of anything, it's the hype we had to endure eight years ago about the Millennium Bug.â¦
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It is 4:45 p.m. West Coast time: It is like a nuclear bomb went off here in San Diego. We have been evacuated from our home early this a.m.
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By Brian Neill, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 9--MANATEE -- As people get ready to set their clocks ahead one hour  this Sunday, local companies were scrambling this week to make sure computers  and servers remember to do the same.   Under a new U.S.
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(InfoWorld) - A GoDaddy.com customer is seriously concerned that this domain registrar and hosting company may not be ready for the switch to DST (Daylight Saving Time) on Sunday. In a series of e-mail exchanges and phone calls, George Baltzell was told by GoDaddy.com's tech support team that the company is exempt from patching its servers because it is based in Arizona, which doesn't observe DST. "That's a silly response," Baltzell said. Baltzell, who lives in St. Louis, contacted GoDaddy.com's tech support after he crafted a short script using the PHP language to verify that the company's servers had been tuned for the DST switch, which comes earlier this year. His test showed that the GoDaddy.com servers are still acting according to the old DST rules, he said. "Thank you for contacting Online Support. As Daylight Savings [sic] does not apply to our servers, since we are on Arizona Time and our time zone does not change, our servers wouldn't update," reads one of the replies he received, and which he provided to IDG News Service. He wrote back to GoDaddy, saying that despite being in Arizona, their servers needed to be patched, otherwise timestamps would be wrong when communicating with computers in other areas. He even provided them with the code he used for his test, but didn't hear back. When informed of this situation by IDG News Service, GoDaddy sent a statement from Chief Information Security Officer Neil Warner. It said GoDaddy has conducted risk analysis on all its systems in preparation for the DST switch as well as contacted its vendors and received recommended patches. "Further, over the weekend, Go Daddy developers and quality assurance teams will be monitoring the transition process closely. As for our corporate headquarters being located in Scottsdale, Arizona, while the fact that we do not participate in DST minimizes potential impact, we are taking all precautionary steps to ensure our customers, located all over the world, are not impacted," the statement read. Told of GoDaddy's response, Baltzell was puzzled about the different message he got from the technical support team. At press time, his test continues to indicate the GoDaddy.com servers haven't been patched, he said. The main site he hosts with GoDaddy.com is St. Louis Places to See. He is particularly concerned for a page in which he tracks power outages in the St. Louis metro area because timestamps are an important part of it. Whatever ends up happening, Baltzell's opinion of GoDaddy.com has been soured by the experience. "Their tech support response is such a non sequitur, it has me wondering whether I should switch to another company," he said. In 2005, President Bush signed into law the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Among other things, it orders that, beginning in 2007, the start of DST be moved from the first Sunday in April to the second Sunday in March. It also shifts the return of standard time from the last Sunday in October to the first Sunday in November. On Sunday, people in zones impacted by DST must advance their clocks one hour. They must set clocks back one hour when DST ends this year on Nov. 4. The new DST dates have had a significant impact on the IT industry as vendors have had to issue patches for their systems and users, both consumers and enterprise IT professionals, have had to adjust their computers.
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A GoDaddy.com customer is seriously concerned that this domain registrar and hosting company may not be ready for the switch to DST (Daylight Saving Time) on Sunday.
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By DR GARETH SMITH  'TIS the season to be jolly but - as many of us know to our cost - merriment often leads to misery when the hangover kicks in.  Here's some tips on minimising that morning after feeling.  Drink plenty of water.
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Customers using Microsoft products that have entered their "Extended" support phase will need to fork over $4,000 for a patch that makes the software compatible with the new March 11 date for Daylight Saving Time (DST), according to Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley.
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It&#39;s time to &quot;fall back&quot; to standard time for most of the Mainland, but not for Hawai&#39;i residents. Daylight-saving time ended in the wee hours of the morning today, although it doesn&#39;t directly affect Hawai
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Microsoft's technical support personnel only just this week discovered that its various patches for Windows, Exchange Server, Outlook, and other tools should be installed in a precise order, otherwise they may not actually be patching networks to properly deal with the upcoming Daylight Savings Time shift, now one week earlier.
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Companies are scrambling to reset computing devices as daylight saving time begins three weeks earlier.
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Earlier than usual switch to daylight saving time causes some snags, but no major disruptions are reported.