I work in the telecommunications industry. We were in the same type of scenario during that time and had a conference bridge up in the war room. However, I was so confident my team had checked out our network throughly and that it would be a major non-event that we were watching movies on the big screen. I had BBQ catered in and we made a party out of it.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
DST changes used to be a pain in our systems with billing on calls, but the software has been used for so long it is no problem any longer.
