Work has been done by a number of techies in the country in the past few weeks to fix the fault. This job will cost businesses hundreds of millions of dollars. Experts opinion are that the fixes will succeed, and the people will notice not a thing.
But still, those who are dependent on their computer calendars a little work has to be done on it, to make sure that schedules stay on date. While certain people will have to face the possibility of being an hour late for a Sunday brunch or Monday morning meeting.
But the "DST" glitch isn't nearly as portentous as the Y2K bug, which unleashed global fears that computers would crash as 1999 segued into 2000.What this is going to be is a minor annoyance for people, said Jeffrey Hammond, a software analyst at Forrester Research. if you see a device that's not going along with your watch, trust your watch.
Analysts say a lot of fixes are being done automatically by companies with central control over devices. Most BlackBerry users get their devices through their employer, so they probably do not need to worry. That's because employers will likely take care of the problem through a centralized computer system.
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