The big DST change happened this morning. For me it went fairly smooth.

Everyone (in the IT world) was panicking about how Congress decided to just change when DST happens without checking with anyone about it before doing it. Dumbasses! Since I do storage and disk drives dont care about time, I knew I was going to be ok. Things like NAS do care about time (to a degree). But I worked with my vendor on those boxes to make sure I was good to go. Now my storage arrays do have clocks but that is for management and for logging. Well I was luckly all my stuff worked out well.

I heard rumors during our DST Party (aka a maintenance window to make sure DST worked as planned), I got a few emails from fellow geeks that various famous companies seemed not to switched as needed. I heard the rumors of google and godaddy while I was in the maintenance window. Other companies names have been thrown out there and many of them disagree with them being on “the list”. I dont know for sure on any of these companies. I dont care if their clocks are off as long as their service(s) that they offer are not effected.

Now here is an odd suggestion. Why dont we put all clocks on GMT time. Ok most servers have their physical time clocks set to GMT and do an offset at the O/S level. I want to go one step further. Get rid of all offsets. Everyone in the world set their clocks (computer, cars, watches, stoves, microwaves, etc) to GMT and just get used to having very different timings for things. Instead of 9am-5pm work. In the US on the East Coast it would be 2pm-10pm. What? Yeah it would get a little getting used to but after a little while people would adjust.