If you are using AT&T (Cingular) I hope that your application doesn’t rely on network-time for execution.

You see, AT&T’s network-time is off.

Thanks to AT&T I would have been a whole hour too early (thanks Michelle) late to an event this weekend (translation: I could have slept an additional hour!).

Yes, it appears that Cingular/AT&T decided not to spend the necessary resources to patch their code in support of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which starting this year pushes daylight-saving time (DST) one week (this year this is to November 4 instead of October 28).

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(8/31) Update: see USA Today article ‘Daylight’ false alarm: So, what time is it? From that article:

“Austin entrepreneur C. Enrique Ortiz showed up at his daughter’s soccer game at the wrong time after his BlackBerry had a similar problem.”