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Y2-Daylight Saving Time

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shoo | March 7th, 2007

This Sunday March 11th marks daylight saving time. You get to spring forward an hour and possibly mess up your Outlook meetings.

Wait, are we jumping the gun on this?

On August 8, 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 in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday in March and end the first Sunday in November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to resume the 2005 Daylight Saving Time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete. Source: http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

If you have automatic updates turned off on your Windows XP or Apple machine you may want to manually add the new time zone rules.

Windows XP, Server 2003, Server 2000: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst

Windows Vista: You’re set.

Apple: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305056 

If you have applications running on Java (which my work does – I’ve had a busy week): http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/USDST/

Categories: Comp Geek Stuff, Geeky

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