Article: Few Woes Mark Computers' Daylight Shift

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 ...

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