Is this what your clock's looked like for two days? Is your technology more confused than you are? When your Blackberry thinks it's an hour different to your watch, and your colleagues are just as confused as you when you turn up at the office an hour late, you realise that the daylight-savings time switch has a big impact nowadays. More after the jump......
Particularly when the US Government decides to mess around with the dates: so when Europe switched an hour back this weekend, Summer hangs on with you for another week. It's been a problem for many devices which are smart enough to schedule their own time-switching and yet didn't have the date set correctly this year. RIM have even been posting alerts on their website about the issue and how it affects Blackberrys... and undoubtedly there'll have been many sleepyheads/well-rested people still confused about what time they arrived in the office yesterday. The economic impact of lost work time, or even Y2K-like miscalculations in people's financial software will probably remain discretely masked... but arguably do exist.
What's more, in Baltimore some of the parking meters revealed their truly evil design by getting the hour change totally wrong and thus dolling out parking tickets ... though the city authorities are kindly letting the unfortunate recipients off.
As an extra nicety, the same sort of confusion might happen again next week when you guys realise it is actually Winter now and hop those hour hands back. Sweet!
(p.s. for those of you whose clocks still are confused, and got your arrival times wrong today too, then good grief! It was two days ago!)
(via CNET News, image:mine)
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