Today I'm not ranting about the grocery store...
Today, my bone is with the US Department of Energy. That's right, the same people who brought is weapons grade uranium and plutonium are screwing with us again.
With the passage of the Energy Policy act of 2005 the start and end dates for Daylight Savings Time have been moved three weeks ahead and one week back. Here in the IT sector that has made for a LOT of extra work.
Every server, computer, switch, router, and handheld device with a clock needs to be updated. What makes this more annoying is that most software vendors (RIM just announced their patches YESTERDAY, giving us a whole 14 days to get every single Blackberry in North America (excepting Indiana, Saskatchewan and a few other spots).
With Y2K we had years to get ready, teams with dozens of members and budgets. Also, we could simply check out hardware and software against a database... package A is compliant, package B is not. Check one PC from each model you have on site to confirm that they're compliant. That's one of the reasons that Y2K came off without a major failure. We had the luxury of time and consistency.
We have consistency with DST as well... it's consistently screwed up. We've been handed the problem at the 11th hour and told "when you have a minute make sure that you get this done too". Just add it to an already overworked IT person's plate. Plus with DST we KNOW that every machine will need to be updated. Can't test one and know that it's good for everything, EVERY SINGLE MACHINE NEEDS TO BE TOUCHED.
It's times like this that I want to disappear and go herd goats in Tierra del fuego...
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We IT people will all be going full out until Easter on DST issues, the defense against working the Easter weekend will be that DST issues don't matter immediately after that for at least a few months and we can then continue on a much lower rate of burn out (back to normal levels).
I'm still finding people who don't know about this DST change.
Palm hasn't released any fixes, they expect you to manually change each City detail that you use on the thought that you only use one and never travel.
I think this DST change will bring a new meaning to the term 'Never Again'
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