New, Earlier, Daylight Savings Time

[MartinLiss]

It comes earlier this year and I assume that at least the times in VBF will be incorrect for a while. See this.

[SeanK]

I had no idea.

Thanks for posting Martin....I have numerous folks that I intend to pass this along to!

[Hack]

I have numerous folks that I intend to pass this along to!

Me too.

Thanks for heads up Martin.

[space_monkey]

Thanks

[szlamany]

Beside Mar 11/12 when daylight savings arrives early we will all have to keep in mind the old date, 3 weeks later, when it would have normally happened.

[RobDog888]

Didnt anyone install the MS Windows Update for this daylight time change? Its been available for several weeks if not months.

[szlamany]

Rob- I'm not worried about me - I'm worried about my customers with many workstations and servers - some running old O/S's...

Will they all be updated? Can they all be updated?

If a client decides to change the clocktime to get around it being off an hour on Mar 11 then 3 weeks later when the auto-change occurs it will be off once again...

I've got customers with jobs that run in the agent on servers and then workstations run scheduled jobs to move files in and out - all timed to work in sync. Some of these jobs are even run on old mainframe type boxes.

[RobDog888]

Soulds like more hours of work for you then, but that also means more $

[Torc]

So far all the articles I have seen just say that it is due to an Energy Act, no one has
given any reasons as to why this is being done.

Does anyone know?

[penagate]

Yeah, it's global warming.

[MartinLiss]

So far all the articles I have seen just say that it is due to an Energy Act, no one has
given any reasons as to why this is being done.

Does anyone know?

U.S. daylight-saving time will start on March 11 this year -- three weeks earlier than usual. The change was authorized by the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005

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[RobDog888]

The Energy Act's commission study showed that there is more consumption of energy during the winter months from switching too early and if they started it a few weeks later it supossed to save allot of resources.

[RhinoBull]

Why not an hour ahead year round plus the "regular" daylight savings then?

[RobDog888]

Dont know but they did do a study and decided this was best, I guess.

[Hack]

Dont know but they did do a study and decided this was best, I guess.

The ubiquitous "they".

I just want to say thanks again for posting that link Martin. I've passed it along to a ton of people and NONE of them knew the time change was going to be three weeks early this year.

[szlamany]

An e-mail from a tech at one of my customer sites - apparently the OUTLOOK/EXCHANGE patch wasn't as complete as you would have hoped...

As most of you are aware, Daylight Savings Time has been changed to take place earlier than usual. Unfortunately, this does affect all computers. For Microsoft based computers, which is the majority of what we have, Microsoft has supplied various patches and software updates that will handle the change. All of these patches and software updates have been applied to every network computer for both School and Town computers. However, the change is not as seamless as originally intended. What is happening is there is a three week window from when DST will take place to when it was originally scheduled that now appear an hour off in calendar events on our outlook appointments and public folders. When DST does take place on March 11, Microsoft states that most appointment will be automatically adjusted. Please review your calendar following March 11th to confirm this. There may be a need for some manual adjustments.

Unfortunately, this was an unforeseen problem from Microsoft, and upon their recommendations we applied these patches as soon as possible, unaware of this problem.

The following is a link to provide what is probably too much information regarding this change. However, if you would like to learn more, please read. Also, this article does mention updates needed for machines. These updates have been applied to ALL machines on the network, so please do not download and install any software to your work machines. You may however, want to apply these to your home machines.


I apologize for the inconvenience, and hope this clarifies any confusion.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...086071033.aspx

[Hack]

Thanks for passing that along Steve. I know a number of people that live and die by their Outlook calendars and appointment schedules that will truly enjoy hearing this news.

[szlamany]

...I know a number of people that live and die by their Outlook calendars and appointment schedules...

What I was shown was truly bad. Some recurring appts moved to the correct time and some did not move at all during the "three week overlap window".

Inconsistent is worse then if they didn't move at all!

Looked like they were all correct after the April date...

[RobDog888]

Yes, I am one that lives and hopefully never dies by my Outlook Calendar. I track my tasks for projects and personal life, record appointments, on-site support, remote support hours, etc. in several calendars. Truely Outlook is very powerful when you know what it can do.

I applied the updates earlier so we shall see how things go.

[Hack]

I applied the updates earlier so we shall see how things go.

I have no control over the machines at work, but I'm going to apply the updates to my home machines.

I forwarded Steve's thing onto the network admins in my shop. They already knew about it and are pondering on the best way to deal with it.