Running toward daylight

0 Comments | USA TODAY, March, 2007

We interrupt this editorial to bring you the following announcement: Daylight-saving time arrives this weekend, three weeks early, thanks to a 2005 act of Congress designed to save energy.

Congress seems to have picked a fitting year. The Academy Awards, which have been held as late as April in recent years, were pushed all the way up to Feb. 25. The 2008 presidential candidates, meanwhile, have been in full campaign mode for weeks.

Apparently, being early is the new fashionably late. But with more angst.

The time switch is reviving memories of the much-heralded Y2K glitch -- the technological disaster that wasn't. Then, the millennial conversion was supposed to freak out older computers, bringing worldwide chaos, or something like it.

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