Subject:                                     CCEX Important Alert: Preparing for daylight saving time changes in 2007

 

CCEX

Introduction

In August of 2005 the United States Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, which changes the dates of both the start and end of daylight saving time (DST). When this law goes into effect in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March) and will end one week later (2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November) than what had traditionally occurred.

 

Unless certain updates are applied to your computer, it is possible that the time zone settings for your computer's system clock may be incorrect during this four week period.

 

The change in DST will have an effect on many automated and technology reliant products. Individual consumers, small to medium size businesses, and large enterprises may be affected by the new change in time. Computer-system related issues include, for example:

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Calendar / scheduling applications

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Date / time calculations (current and historical)

 

Affected Products

Windows Client
Windows Server
Windows Mobile
Microsoft Exchange Server
Microsoft Office Outlook
Microsoft SQL Server Notification Services
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services

What users can do to ease the transition

All users of Microsoft products affected by the time change should give extra attention to meetings and appointments scheduled between March 11, 2007 to April 1, 2007 and October 28, 2007 to November 4, 2007, referred to here as the "extended DST period." Users should view any appointments that fall into these date ranges as suspect until they communicate with all meeting invitees to make sure that the item shows up correctly on everyone's calendar both internally and externally. To minimize confusion during the affected date ranges:

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Include the time of the meeting in the e-mail request so that invitees can double check the correct meeting time (such as, "Project brainstorming - 11:00 A.M. Central Time").

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Consider printing out your weekly calendars during the extended DST period prior to applying the Windows patch containing the updated time zone definitions.

 

Patching your operating system

Patches for Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 are located below.  Please note that Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP1 are no longer a supported Microsoft operating system and therefore no patches are available.  Users with Exchange Server will require additional updates.

Update rollup information

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

DownloadDownload the Update for Windows Server 2003 package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=554A94FE-A478-47A7-B004-0277A292E90E)
DownloadDownload the Update for Windows XP SP2 package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=66F1420C-DF2D-400B-A8A9-EF9061A9A3CA)

Have questions or need help?

As always, feel free to contact Capitol Computer at 301-731-4585 or request service at: http://www.ccex.com/contact/support.php

 

Thank you,

CCEX Staff

 

Change in daylight saving time:

Previously DST started on:

With the new law, DST will start on:

Previous DST ended on:

With the new law, DST will end on:

First Sunday of April

Second Sunday of March

Last Sunday of October

First Sunday of November

Would have been: April 1, 2007

Will now be: March 11, 2007

Would have been: October 28, 2007

Will now be: November 4, 2007

 

Alert by: Jeffrey Pena (Senior Network Engineer)