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April 30, 2007

Do Time Bombs Honor DST?

The switch to Daylight Saving Time is usually attended by all sorts of stories, anecdotes, cliches about people missing appointments, work, and that sort of thing due to their clocks being off. But ITA friend Doug Masson passes along this story of an unsuspecting innocent who was caught in the dastardly web of DST treachery due to someone else's clock:

A 15-year-old Pennsylvania high-school student was thrown in jail for 12 days because authorities believed he'd called in a bomb-threat. His voice sounded nothing like the voice that made the threat, but he had called the school at the time the threat was made... Or so they thought, until they realized that the call-logging program they used wasn't honoring Daylight Savings [sic] Time.

Twelve days! Twelve days they had this kid behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. When will the madness end?

Posted by Zach Wendling at April 30, 2007 12:25 PM

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