The Year 2007 Problem

January 19, 2007

Slipping silently under the radar screen of many companies has been the upcoming changes to Daylight Savings Time, scheduled to impact systems the second week in March 2007. Much like in the months preceding the turn of the century, many business systems, including Microsoft Exchange 2007, will require updates to address hard-coded dependencies in Microsoft software. We're calling this the "Year 2007" problem here at Azaleos.

In 1999, I was given a plaque labeled "Year 2000: Use in case of Emergency" --- with an easily detachable pencil for use if all of the computers were to go down due to the change in the millenium impacting systems. We all might need to sharpen our pencils now and remember that time once again.