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DST threatens computer stability in 2007

By Justin Mann

On February 13, 2007, 8:30 PM

If you work in just about any office environment, you've probably heard of the changes to daylight savings time by now. On top of causing massive headaches for people trying to organize changes in general, the new law could cause problems with computers, particularly with older software not written to handle DST like this. From customer equipment to computers to SANs, time synchronization is critical in a networked environment Active directory, for instance, will not let a user login if the time is skewed too far. NTP clients will panic and fail to update if their server is skewed too far. And, of course, there's the potential impact on scheduling.

DST already causes many problems every year, and this may be a particularly nasty one. IT staffs at businesses everywhere definitely have their work cut out for them.

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  1. February 14, 2007 11:04 PM
    OUTLAWXXX said:
    cool now wtf is DST? yes some new daylight savings time change but exactly what is the change?
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  2. February 15, 2007 7:20 PM
    black_death said:
    DST accomplishes nothing but pointless confusion, youre not "saving" anything especially when every single single year some unknown organization feels the need to change the dates again. F*** DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!
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  3. February 16, 2007 3:02 PM
    argent said:
    Argent Software offers a free test utility and informational website to help ensure your computers are ready for DST. Visit [url]http://DST.Argent.com[/url]
    Reply

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