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Article: Few bitten by daylight-saving time bugs
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- March 13, 2007
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This weekend's early switch to daylight-saving time was billed as
a little re-enactment of the Y2K computer problem at the turn of the
millennium. And as it happened, the daylight bug appeared to have
equally minor results.
Among the problems that were reported: Some customer-service call
centers struggled to open at the proper hour. Calendar software
inconsistently displayed meeting times.
But for the most part, the software patches and other tweaks
applied by technology administrators worked as planned.
"It was not very serious, but a lot of work had been happening in
the last weeks or two months to prepare for all this," said Julien
Courbe, managing director of the financial services ...