http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/22/congress.daylighttime.ap/index.html

The Republicans in Congress, in what can only be an attempt to boost the faltering Tech economy, have decided to extend daylight savings time by 4 weeks (three in the spring and one in the fall). Their justification is to “reduce energy usage”.

This has got to be one of the dumbest things I’ve heard in a long time. First off, Congress cannot make the Sun rise earlier nor set later - no matter how large their ego’s might be. All they are doing is messing around with people’s minds making them think that. If you want more daylight when people get home from work, have people go into work an hour earlier. Hell, most people work some form of staggered hours anyway to avoid traffic in most places. Farmers don’t care what the clock says - they wake when the rooster crows and quit when the work is done.

What this will do is cause another major Y2K problem. Every computer that needs to track time is going to have to be fixed to account for these new rules. Much like with Y2K, an industry of consultants will arise to fix ancient mainframes where the code has been lost to the ages. Everyone is going to have to go update their computers. Oh, and if you are running an older version of Windows - like say Windows 2000 - you will have to upgrade to XP or Longhorn, because Microsoft doesn’t support Win2k anymore.

So therefore, I would like to amend this bill to rename it to the Full Employment for Computer Programmers Act of 2005.