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Time change could catch businesses snoozing
Call it Baby Y2K.
For the first time, daylight-saving time will kick off three weeks early this year, on March 11, and end a week later, on Nov. 4. Congress approved the changes as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 in a bid to conserve electricity by extending daylight-saving time for a month. Seemed harmless.
But, if no steps are taken, the shift could throw off everything from videocassette recorders and computers to surgery schedules and multimillion-dollar stock trades.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/2007-0...ght-usat_x.htm
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