2009 April 06 | wisefaq.com

Daylight savings ends for another year …

… and I suspect today is going to be a busy day.

Back in the day, when I was working with mainframes, we would have to “stop” the mainframe at the end of daylight saving.

And wait an hour.

Why?

Transaction time-stamping is the reason. The mainframe would happily stamp transactions will this: 02:00:00 [...]

But some years ago, I was on an elevator in Philadelphia, coming down. I was to address a conference at a hotel.

And on that elevator a man said "I hear Billy Graham is staying in this hotel".

And another man looked in my direction and said ‘Yes, there he is. He’s [...]