Thankfully, GMT doesn't end in two and a half weeks' time when British Summer Time starts, nor did it begin at the end of October when British Summer Time for 2007 ends.

Don't you guys start planning your Halloweens around March / April?

must be a leap year...

At the risk of injecting some rationality into this discussion, I suspect that the problem was triggered by the US time change this last weekend. Since the States now puts the clocks forward three weeks earlier than before, it may be that there might be a bug in Microsoft's software (is that even possible?) that misinterpreted the time change on the UK site.

I am curious whether other territories that change their clocks later than the US (which, I think, is all of them) saw the same bug.

Strikes again............

i love the clock next to it, that says "make time work for you", yes, im bored of march, how about october?

Not forgetting that the clocks go back an hour on the 28th October and, apparently, forward seven and a half months in early march.

good advert!

would be quite amusing if it was tied to the same system that updates the windows system clock!.......evil plan.....

I think you will find GMT no longer exists except as a quaint time zone, chaps (which I also thought were for riding a horse??) and its UTC Universal Time.

GMT is just the British Winter time, as apposed to BST British Summer Time .. which I note we manage not to turn into something else.

Its another argument but double summer time would suit me perfectly, then GMT can finally die a death .. hopefully taking the program of the same name down with it. Maybe we could call the time zone "Prime" .. which I like the sound of : )

The date on the card is October 31, 2005?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/06/microsoft_wins_latest_halloween_pr/

The Halloween memos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents

http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/

I wonder if its something else......

The date today, I believe is 10th March 08 or 10/03/08 (for us in the UK) :) in the US it would be 3rd October, I just wonder if tomorrow we will see Fireworks and burning guys for the 3rd of November (11/3/08), as if you change the site to the US version everthing seems fine. Are they just reading a US date in UK format for the UK site.......

This is obviously a date translation error. The date is UK but being read as US.

Maybe if the USians understood why we write dd/mm/yyyy then they might get it right, so here goes:

The date when written as 10/03/2008 is a short version of 10th March 2008, and the date written in this format is a modern shortened version of the old English way of expressing a date which was 'the 10th day of March in the year 2008'. Lots of expressions over time have been shortened, for example to eat your first meal after awakening from sleep was to break your fast which eventually became breakfast.

Putting the month before the day just doesn't make sense!

Also remember that in the UK when asked the date we say "it's the 10th of March", whereas Americans say "it's March 10th". More economical / lazy I suppose!

Dunno if their date format follows the way they say it, or if the way they say it follows their date format (chicken/egg?).