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Old 10-30-2007, 08:39 AM
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Default Net54 outage

Posted By: Ken Wirt

Hey Leon,
Wonder if the problem had anything to do with Daylight Savings Time not ending yet. Yesterday morning was the traditional switchover day (at 2:00 A.M.). But this year, DST has been extended one week. This last Spring, everyone switched one week earlier than usual. Many clocks that have the time change preprogrammed into them were all wrong for a week, and you can expect that to be the case now. Probably screwing plenty of things up at a lot of peoples' jobs this morning as we speak. Perhaps this caused some failure with the network server? Just a theory. BTW, this was all prompted in an attempt to conserve energy because of the high fuel prices. I actually heard that one of the biggest lobbies for the extension into November was the candy industry. With one extra hour of daylight on Halloween, the kids can trick-or-treat that much longer, and we all will need to buy that much more candy for them!

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