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“An energy bill President Bush is to sign Monday would start daylight time three weeks earlier and end it a week later as an energy-saving measure. This has technologists worried about software and gadgets that now compensate for daylight time based on a schedule unchanged since 1987.”
” ‘It is unfortunately going to add a little bit of complexity to consumers,’ said Reid Sullivan, vice president of the entertainment group at Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co. ‘In some cases, depending on the product, they may have to manually increase or decrease the time.’ ”

This even has me a little worried, but I think it only applies for the US, at least I hope so. This reminds me of the Y2K problems everyone was worried about. But if they actually go ahead with this, a lot of people maybe very confused. Imagine turning on the TV to find that the programme you wanted to watch has ended, waking up and realising that you were supposed to be at work more than an hour ago, arriving at the airport thinking your on time when the plane has just taken off. But these are only a few of the problems that could occur. I have no idea how this would be an “energy-saving measure“. It seems really stupid as well. I think we should stick to the schedule that was adopted in “1987“. It is the easiest and simplest way. If the US wants to save energy that bad, they should lower the CO2 emmisions and take part in the Kyoto Treaty. Bush really angers me…