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Daylight saving is the procedure of setting clocks 1 hour ahead at a particular time of years to make way for 1 additional hour of daylight in the evening. Daylight saving time (DST) is widespread among countries located within the North Temperate Zone and clocks are usually set one hour ahead starting April 1 and reset to normal from October 28.
Daylight saving time 2007
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandates that starting year 2007 (Y2K7), observance of DST will start from the second Sunday in March through the first Sunday in November, as opposed to the previous schedule (first Sunday in April and last Sunday in October). In 2007, the start and stop dates will be March 11 and November 4, respectively.
The implications of daylight saving time 2007-Evolution of the daylight saving time (DST) bug
Apparently, the updated daylight saving time changes doesn't look of much significance leaving aside the fact that clocks will move ahead by an hour three weeks earlier than usual starting this year (Y2K7). However, a deeper insight into its potentialities reveals the great deal of commotions that updated daylight saving time could lead to (DST problem 2007), and these go far beyond missed meetings and schedules to errors in mission critical time-reliant applications, ranging from operating system scheduling, billing, to contract scheduling etc.
All time-dependant applications have the potentiality to run into problems after the March 11 updated daylight saving time 2007...the Y2K7 problem
Incorrect system times and zonal settings have the propensity to change the clock time by an hour, meaning applications displaying incorrect time. This change may even affect worldwide organizations having customers, vendors, operations in North America as well as MNC's in synchronizing operations with their North American counterparts.
Older versions of Java Runtime Environment (JRE) will be outdated as a result of the DST bug and applications running on older JRE's would be prone to report incorrect time starting March 11, 2007 through April 2, 2007 and from October 29, 2007 through November 4, 2007.
A number of Microsoft products, including several versions of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Windows will also be affected by the new DST problem.
Unless proper precautionary measures are taken, computer's system clocks would run incorrectly during this entire period, depending on the selected time zone. At SynapseIndia, we have a section dedicated to the Daylight-saving Changes, helping our customers outline what remedial steps are necessary to be DST Y2k7 compliant.
Daylight saving time (DST) bug fixation
DST is a significant matter of concern for the outsourcing industry. Each year, a great many number of clocks have to be set and a number of systems to be synchronized for optimal performance of the global outsourcing industry.
SynapseIndia, a major player in offshore software development industry, has been focused on the Daylight saving time (DST) problem and offers Daylight Saving Time (DST) help for North American organizations. We have a section dedicated to daylight saving changes that outlines fixes and remedial steps that are necessary for organizations to be DST compliant.
We help organizations synchronize with the actual time that helps organizations with their calendar / scheduling applications, date / time calculations, server patching, and transaction logging needs.
Mail us with your queries on the Mini Y2k7 Bug and to make your systems DST compliant.
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