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March 12, 2007
Daylight Savings Time
I'm home, and it's still light out.
This is good.
I have a handful of devices around the house that have no idea Congress decided to muck about with DST.
This is less good. Don't even get me started on work, where we have a handful of critical systems running Windows2k, which is out of mainstream support. Blech.
I wonder how much the software industry spent accommodating this capricious change?
The mind boggles.
Posted by dberger at March 12, 2007 6:21 PM
Comments
Hopefully not much on a per-product basis.
Last year my product (at the time) went through the patch and it was pretty uneventful. In rough terms, I'd probably assess the cost at a total of half a day of time (eng+QA). It was wrapped into a general bug fix build that had other fixes. The engineers that have worked on it have probably collectively spent more time reading about it in the press than they have fixing it.
On the flip side, I'd argue that the IT community has paid the price with having to run around and patch countless systems and bug vendors for their patch status. That has been expensive.
Posted by: Steve S. at March 12, 2007 9:20 PM