The DOBlog

Daylight Savings time starts in the US on the 11th of March - that’s next week. DST doesn’t start in Ireland or the UK until the 25th of March. The US change comes about under an Energy Protection Act passed last year.

Microsoft are warning people in the US that their PCs won’t automatically update (not that mine ever did) and are assuring people that VISTA already handles it.

So what will happen if your PC has the incorrect locale settings (data)? Will that have triggered it to download the various patches for Windows and Outlook? Have European firms checked that they have no dependencies on US daylight savings time in other software or calculations?

I’m probably fretting over nothing but seemingly innocuous base data can, if not managed correctly, have a big impact on business processes and on people’s lives.

My advice - check your locale settings even if you’re using a Mac.

The DoBlog is back again, and in the style of Bond villains it has another new face. The old one was functional-ish and quite search engine friendly but it was a tad bland and ugly and didn’t wrap text very well. Frankly I put my failure to be nominated for any of the Irish Blog Awards down to the poor design . Next year I am hoping to wrestle TwentyMajor for a 2 litre bottle of Um-Bongo - well done to Twenty for winning again.

I’ve been busy with the IQNETWORK website (www.iqnetwork.org) getting it bang up to date and also running the 4th Information Quality Forum in DCU. I’m also lecturing in DCU as well, so I have very little time for this blog which is still more of a hobby than a way of life.

Must also try and find time to get back into training with the Aikido club…. (sorry Sensei).

So much to do… must set up a category for ‘time management’….