2007 time zone update, will it be worth it?

March 11 is almost here and the crazy time zone updates are upon us. If you're looking for info on Windows operating system updates, check out the KB article here. Personally I can't follow it. At this point I'm not sure if my XP SP2 box is updated or not? Or if it will update? I'm a pretty techy guy but some things I just don't give a rats ass about, and this is one of them. Normally it just updates but tonight I don't know if it will so I would have to do it manually. Then in 4 weeks when the automatic DST adjustment kicks in, I'll have to manually adjust the time again? (and twice more in October/November). What bothers me is that if Microsoft has the time zone adjustment already in the operating system, why can't they issue an update to handle the new one (or maybe they did, again, not paying attention here).

I've seen so much hype about this and have to wonder is this going to be worth it? I mean, the 3 week adjustment now and 1 week adjustment in October is apparently going to save gobs of cash. Is it? Is there someone going to measure this? Is this even measurable? 6 months from now I'm sure someone will come out and say it is, but how true will it really be. Give me a bunch of stats and I can spin them any way to appear to be value-added. That's what statistics and numbers do. They're the truth but as Obi-wan said, from a certain point of view.

Personally I don't think it's going to save the billions of dollars anyone thinks it will but maybe that's just one geeks opinion.