Daylight Savings 2 Wks Early And 1 Wk Late

This year the time change for Daylight Savings in March and October will be two weeks early and a week later, respectively. Who cares, right? Well, it's the first time this happens.

Government Computer News calls it Y2K7. The article brings out that on older systems, or systems that haven't been updated, or older software that isn't supported anymore, it may wrongly display the time. This could cause computers to be out of sync. If a computer clock on a domain type network is too far out of sync with the domain controller, there will be problems.

So especially for network administrators it's important to make sure necessary patches are applied before the clock goes forward (Fall Back, Spring Forward). Avoid 3 weeks of head aches.