ABC News The Blotter features a quote by former Clinton terrorism czar Richard Clarke:

"It is always the unanticipated system that nobody knew about or realized was important that will become significant," says ABC News consultant Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterror and cyber crime chief.

"Traffic lights and switches on train rails are two candidates that could cause an accident," said Clarke, who also said bank vaults will be open an hour later, and travelers might miss connecting flights in Europe if schedules are off by an hour. He does not anticipate accidents involving planes since air traffic controllers will still see the planes.

The upcoming computer glitch is reminiscent of Y2K, but security analysts don't fear the disasters that might have happened if computer systems stopped functioning when the year 1999 changed to 2000. "The difference between this and Y2K is that systems continue to work, they're just an hour off, whereas with Y2K we had reason to believe that systems would stop working," said Clarke.

He is referring to the upcoming change to daylight savings time, which is now scheduled to occur three weeks earlier than previously.

Some of you are guffawing right now, and the rest are wondering why you're reading this. Let me clue you in on the joke.

Richard "If-you-would-only-have-listened-to-me Clarke is apparently unaware that its a new world, where even mundane electronic devices automatically synchronize the time over, network, the internet or satellite. If you travel, have you ever noticed that your cellphone automatically adjusts the time zone for you when you fly from one side of the country to the other?

I can't remember the last time I saw an industrial control system that didn't use a GPS receiver to synchronize all its internal clocks. It must have been sometime back in the 1990s.

I don't know which is more embarrassing--alleged security expert Richard Clarke beclowning himself, or ABC News taking the hook, line and sinker.