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Daylight Savings Time
Posted on February 21, 2007 11:35 PM
President George W. Bush signed the energy Policy Act of 2005 in August 2005. This decision moved the date the start date for Daylight Saving Time. Starting in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday in March and end the first Sunday in November. The Secretary of Energy will report back to the Congress about the impact of this move. Congress retains the right to resume the 2005 Daylight Saving time Schedule once the DOE study is completed.
http://www.ferc.gov/legal/maj-ord-reg/fed-sta/ene-pol-act.asp
This year DST will start on March 11 instead of April 1. This could create some unspecified problems with the timing of some Bowdoin systems. Each operating system has or is promising to come out with patches to upgrade the operating systems so they function correctly. Bowdoin has some fairly old systems so there may be some additional problems for any software that has date/time specifications.
IT has been testing software patches to make sure that everything still works after they are installed. Everyone in IT is going to be looking for time/date inconsistencies. If anyone happens to notice a time/date problem with one of Bowdoin's systems, please report it to the help desk.
Sometimes the fun just never ends!
Mitch Davis
CIO
Bowdoin College