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February 22, 2007
In a Star Tribune story this week entitled, “New daylight saving time awakening Y2K7 fears,” CSE Professor Mats Heimdahl downplayed anticipated glitches in the computer world due to the impending daylight savings time change.
The early start to daylight savings time is set to ‘spring’ Minnesota time forward one hour on March 11. The story highlighted fears of problems with computer systems projected to affect everything from bank deposits to stock trades. Heimdahl, also the director of the University of Minnesota’s Software Engineering Center (UMSEC), said the anticipated problems, if any, will be more of a minor classification.
For more on this story, visit “New daylight saving time awakening Y2K7 fears.”
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