Daylight Saving Time

Microsoft preps customers early in hopes of avoiding DST falloutPosted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on Sep 14, 2007 1:27 PM Subscribe Alerts: November 4 is just around the corner. Now's the time to make sure any Microsoft products that store or use time are updated before Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the...[Read the rest]

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Beware false Daylight Saving Time resets on April 1: Users who didn't already update their PCs and devices for the earlier-than-usual Daylight Saving Time (DST) change-over could encounter time glitches on April 1, the "normally scheduled" DST start date. [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Mar 30, 2007 11:56 AM
DST - Happy or headaches?: [Updated: Mar 12, 2007 @ 2.25 pm] NIST is keeping an eye on DST-related issues. Here are a few issues:SANS.org - Daylight Saving Time Change Problem With Symantec Backup Exec... [Read the rest]; Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Mar 12, 2007 3:17 AM
Cellular phones botch DST: Its Sunday morning, March 11, 2007, on the first morning of the new DST (Daylight Saving Time), and I just noticed the time on my cell phone is ahead one... [Read the rest]; Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Mar 11, 2007 7:52 AM
Are on-demand users safe from the DST debacle?: Unfortunately, on-demand users may also be affected by today's early DST change. Not all vendors can be relied on to correctly patch their servers, it seems. Even if they do,... [Read the rest]; Posted by Phil Wainewright in Software as Services on: Mar 11, 2007 5:48 AM
Ground zero weekend for DST change: At the risk of beating a dead horse, Im going to talk about DST and link to some tips and articles.Patch Microsoft Windows and Windows Servers for Daylight Savings Time... [Read the rest]; Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Mar 9, 2007 7:25 PM
The lazy person's guide to adjusting your PC for daylight saving: Here's a quick guide for all you non-geeks out there, just in case you need some last-minute help getting ready for the early switch to Daylight Saving Time and making... [Read the rest]; Posted by Phil Wainewright in Software as Services on: Mar 9, 2007 1:24 PM; 5 Comments
Updates from the Microsoft Daylight Saving patch trenches: It's going to be a busy weekend for IT administrators still struggling to get their systems patched to handle the change to Daylight Saving Time (DST) on March 11. Here... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Mar 9, 2007 1:01 PM
TechNET guide to DST fixes for Windows: Microsoft TechNET has compiled a pretty comprehensive guide to the various patches and updates related to this weekend's Daylight Saving Time (DST) switch. Reproduced here for your convenience, but follow... [Read the rest]; Posted by Marc Orchant in Office Evolution on: Mar 9, 2007 7:00 AM; 7 Comments
Here's your complete BlackBerry Daylight Savings Time how-to resource: In most of North America (except for Arizona and Hawaii) the clocks will move forward one hour at 2 a.m. this Sunday.The arrival of Daylight Savings Time occurs three weeks... [Read the rest]; Posted by Russell Shaw in The BlackBerry Beat on: Mar 8, 2007 1:51 PM
Your DST IT nightmare: Who's to blame? Hint: They're in DC: "Day light saving just brings a smile to everybody’s faces.” --Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., on March 8. Talk about disconnects between Washington D.C. and reality. Markey, one of the people... [Read the rest]; Posted by Larry Dignan in Between the Lines on: Mar 8, 2007 8:50 AM
Apply Daylight Saving Time updates to all your mobile devices: On 8 August 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Beginning... [Read the rest]; Posted by Matthew Miller in The Mobile Gadgeteer on: Mar 8, 2007 7:05 AM
Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patches: Thousands of Microsoft customers are running into problems understanding and applying the myriad Microsoft Daylight Saving Time (DST) patches required in order to keep their Windows, Exchange Server and other... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Mar 8, 2007 6:04 AM
Daylight Saving Time: Top ten DST personal survival tips: Are you personally prepared for DST?On Sunday, technology types will be watching their applications, PCs, servers and networks to see whether change in Daylight Saving Time (DST) will affect their... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Mar 8, 2007 5:31 AM
What does Daylight Saving Time cost IT?: On Sunday, technology types will be watching their applications, PCs, servers and networks to see whether change in Daylight Saving Time will affect their infrastructure. CIOs will be looking... [Read the rest]; Posted by Larry Dignan in Between the Lines on: Mar 7, 2007 7:42 AM
DST spells disaster for shrinkwrap software: It's hard to imagine a better demonstration of the absurdity of customer-installed and operated software than the fast-approaching catastrophe of Daylight Saving Time. [Read the rest]; Posted by Phil Wainewright in Software as Services on: Mar 5, 2007 9:17 AM; 22 Comments
Are you ready for DST changes?: This year sees Daylight Saving Time in many jurisdictions of the United States and Canada move as a result of Energy Policy Act of 2005 from its usual slots of... [Read the rest]; Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Mar 5, 2007 5:19 AM
Microsoft releases Daylight Saving patches for Dynamics CRM 3.0: Microsoft is continuing to roll out updates needed for a number of its products as a result of the early switch to Daylight Saving Time (DST) on March 11. The... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Mar 5, 2007 4:59 AM
Microsoft to charge for Daylight Saving hotfixes for older products: If you need to patch for Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes older Microsoft products that already have moved from "Mainstream" to "Extended" support phase, Microsoft will give you a chance... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Feb 28, 2007 10:52 AM
Treo user? Get Palm updates for Vista, Office 2007, and DST: From MyTreo.net today:Palm contacted us recently and asked that we share with the community three software updates. Palm has released a fix for a daylight savings time change issue, which... [Read the rest]; Posted by Marc Orchant in Office Evolution on: Feb 27, 2007 5:58 AM
Apple releases torrent of software updates: If you're not a daily checker then there's a surprise waiting in your Software Update system preference. Apple yesterday released nine (count 'em) software updates for Mac OS X and... [Read the rest]; Posted by Jason D. O'Grady in The Apple Core on: Feb 16, 2007 5:23 AM
Daylight Saving Time change: Tips for Microsoft users: It's almost exactly one month until Daylight Savings Time (DST) changes take effect in the U.S. and a growing number of other countries. The week of February 12, Microsoft will... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Feb 9, 2007 1:23 PM
U.S. Daylight Saving time shift poses a risk for IT: A change federal Energy Policy Act of 2005, which moved the start of Daylight Saving Time back from the first Sunday in April to the second Sunday in March and... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Feb 2, 2007 1:47 PM
Is your open source project ready for the daylight savings time fix?: There are many open source operations that need to know the time in order to work properly. As open source moves into the enterprise, this number increases. And these projects... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dana Blankenhorn in Linux and Open Source on: Oct 7, 2005 9:04 AM