Daylight Savings Time Changes 2007

 

In the U.S., the Energy Policy Act of 2005 changed the rules for Daylight Saving Time (DST). These new rules will go into effect in March 2007. Since DST rules have been relatively stable in these countries for many years, people have come to rely upon automated adjustments in time in connection with their information technology.

Starting in 2007, Daylight Saving Time for the U.S., Canada and Bermuda will be extended by four weeks, starting three weeks earlier on the second Sunday in March and ending one week later on the first Sunday in November. In 2007, DST will start on Sunday, 11 March and will end on Sunday, 4 November.

Daylight Saving Time rules changes could affect all kinds of computers, hardware, applications and electronic devices that have built-in DST rules for date and time processing. This is not a vendor specific issue.

NOTE: PDAs are especially vulnerable to creating meetings that do not follow the new DST rules for March 11 - April 1. Carefully check meetings created from PDAs. Meetings in that timeframe read on PDAs could be misleading, so double check them from a desktop/laptop.

College and University system administrators have taken great strides to ensure central systems are correctly patched.

Impact: Unpatched systems will show incorrect time between 11 March and 1 April

Link to Update Palm Devices

Link to Update Mobile Windows Devices

ACNS/Outlook Information Page

Microsoft/Outlook Information

 

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