DST - Impact on Software & Hardware Systems
This document discusses about the new provisions for Daylight Saving Time in the recently introduced energy bill in the US and its impact on software systems which use schedulers and electronic devices like VCR, DVD players, energy meters etc that has got inbuilt calendars.
Many non tropical countries which experience wide swing in the day light time during the year set their clocks forward in summer and then revert it back in winter, ostensibly to save energy. This exercise is called Daylight Saving Time (or Summer Time).
The recently introduced energy bill in US senate calls for, with effect from 2007, daylight savings to begin three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and to end on the first Sunday in November, one week later than daylight saving time currently does....
