http://embeddedgurus.com/area-0x51/2009/10/death-to-daylight-saving-time/ A Blog by Mike Ficco Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://embeddedgurus.com/area-0x51/2009/10/death-to-daylight-saving-time/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Arch's Blog Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:03:54 +0000 http://embeddedgurus.com/area-0x51/2009/10/death-to-daylight-saving-time/#comment-22 On the bright side, it gives the morons in Congress something fairly non-destructive to waste their time doing. On the bright side, it gives the morons in Congress something fairly non-destructive to waste their time doing.

]]> http://embeddedgurus.com/area-0x51/2009/10/death-to-daylight-saving-time/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Dan S Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:47:53 +0000 http://embeddedgurus.com/area-0x51/2009/10/death-to-daylight-saving-time/#comment-21 Mike!This is too funny -- I read this blog article yesterday as I was flying back home after a week on the road. I said to myself, "Yep, there are always hiccups, what a waste of resources, but I usually don't have too many problems...."Well here it is, Saturday afternoon (well, Saturday NOON here out in PST land), and I went to check in online for a US Air flight that leaves noon tomorrow.I get a message "sorry, you can't check in until it is within 24 hours of your flight".So I call customer service (which was really good, by the way)... Turns out that because of DLS, it is actually 25 hours before my flight -- so even though by the clock it is 24 hours before my flight, I must wait another hour to check in.The CS rep was very friendly (she'd been dealing with these calls all morning) and joked with me that "apparently the website & IT people couldn't have foreseen this problem" in a somewhat sarcastic tone.Just to let you know that I got "bit" by this very thing today. I'd love to know what the actual financial cost of support issues like this is, nation wide, 2x a year... must be astounding! Mike!This is too funny — I read this blog article yesterday as I was flying back home after a week on the road. I said to myself, "Yep, there are always hiccups, what a waste of resources, but I usually don't have too many problems…."Well here it is, Saturday afternoon (well, Saturday NOON here out in PST land), and I went to check in online for a US Air flight that leaves noon tomorrow.I get a message "sorry, you can't check in until it is within 24 hours of your flight".So I call customer service (which was really good, by the way)… Turns out that because of DLS, it is actually 25 hours before my flight — so even though by the clock it is 24 hours before my flight, I must wait another hour to check in.The CS rep was very friendly (she'd been dealing with these calls all morning) and joked with me that "apparently the website & IT people couldn't have foreseen this problem" in a somewhat sarcastic tone.Just to let you know that I got "bit" by this very thing today. I'd love to know what the actual financial cost of support issues like this is, nation wide, 2x a year… must be astounding!

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