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Will this year's Daylight Savings Time be the next Y2K?

It seemed like a good idea at the time. In 2005, as the price of gasoline spiked, Congress quietly passed a measure to begin daylight-saving time three weeks early this year. If the sun stays up later, went the logic, U.S. energy consumption would go down. The problem is that while they told us all of the switch, they didn't tell our computers or our cell phones — or any of the zillion other digital clock-driven devices that have come into our lives since Congress last messed with the calendar in 1986...

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