The weekly newsletter for Fed2 by ibgames

EARTHDATE: October 22, 2006

Official News - page 7

EXTRA SLEEP FOR MOST OF US NEXT SUNDAY

by Hazed

Summer will officially be over next weekend with the end of British Summer Time, Daylight Savings Time, or whatever they happen to call it in your particular part of the world. Clocks will be put back in the early hours of the morning on Sunday October 29, allowing night owls like me to enjoy an extra hour in bed before having to get up to face the unpleasantness that we call morning.

In Fed DataSpace, you won't notice anything different unless you happen to type 'TIME' just before and then again just after time change, although if you forget that it's happening you are going to think the reset is late!

Speaking of the time change... a bug in Microsoft Exchange Server could affect some programs by turning the clocks back a week early. Whoops! Apparently this October is unusual for having five Sundays - Exchange had been hard-coded to assume there were only four, and to switch the time on the fourth Sunday. The same thing is going to happen in 2010, 2011 and 2016, but with any luck Microsoft will have fixed the bug by then. No, stop laughing, they might!


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