An EXTRA hour to Daylight Savings Time?

[CyberPitz]

Usually it's set back one hour, go forward one hour. Well, according to my boss *which is going nuts, due to some specifications in our system and our product* is running around saying it's going to be TWO hours this time around. So, apparently, XP SP2 and Vista are going to be the only OS out there that will have an update for this time change...

I can't seem to find any news articles on this, and what's the point of going back 2 hours? Why the change?

 

[Baal]

I heard about this, but I didn't know it was actually going to happen.

But here is the proof, and apparently it's not how you described it, but we're changing our clocks earlier and later in the year, not changing the amount of time we're changing.

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub.L. 109-58) is a statute that was passed by the United States Congress on July 29, 2005 and signed into law by President George W. Bush on August 8, 2005 at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Act, described by proponents as an attempt to combat growing energy problems, provides tax incentives and loan guarantees for energy production of various types.

Change to daylight saving time

The bill amends the Uniform Time Act of 1966 by changing the start and end dates of daylight saving time starting in 2007. Clocks will be set ahead one hour on the second Sunday of March instead of the current first Sunday of April. Clocks will be set back one hour on the first Sunday in November, rather than the last Sunday of October. This will make electronic clocks that had pre-programmed dates for adjusting to daylight saving time obsolete and will require updates to computer operating systems. The date for the end of daylight saving time has the effect of increasing evening light on Halloween (October 31). This section of the act is controversial, primarily because there is doubt if daylight savings actually results in a net energy savings. The additional effort of changing quite possibly billions of clocks on embedded systems as well as enterprise servers may cause significant impact to the productivity of any region that adopts these changes.

 

[CyberPitz]

Well, here is the windows update that pertains to this issue.

Update for Windows XP (KB928388)

I may have understood him wrong, but I swear he said back 2 hours and forward 2 hours. I'll have to clarify.