Time Change a ‘Mini-Y2K’ in Tech Terms

March 6, 2007 | Source: New York Times

The daylight saving time change takes effect March 11–three weeks earlier. Many companies are scrambling to reset BlackBerry e-mail devices, desktop PCs and data-center computers used to automate payrolls, purchasing and manufacturing.

For the roughly 7,000 public companies in the United States, Jeffrey Hammond, an analyst at Forrester Research estimates, the total cost of making computer fixes to deal with the daylight saving time shift is more than $350 million.