When I won the "rock, paper, scissors" battle to see who would pull the Y2K duty at the company I worked at at the time, I called the loser at the office and caught his voicemail...I called him at home and woke him up...seamusTX wrote:I'm in the software business. On Dec. 31, 1999, the company had everyone who could perform telephone support in a "war room" with water, food, and emergency generators. Nothing happened. The scuttlebutt was that they didn't get a single call except for some wrong numbers.
Every year, when DST starts switching on or off, they get hammered with customer problems.
DST was supposed to save energy, but no one can demonstrate that it does now. I'm sure you remember when the whole country was on DST for most of the year in the 1970s. IMO, they might as well do that permanently -- just advance all the time zones by one hour. I don't care if sunset is at 6:30 or 7:30 p.m. in the winter.
- Jim
We concluded that if the voicemail worked we were ok, and never mentioned what really happened to anyone else...
Not like we could do anything about it anyway...
