Daylight Savings Time a month early!

[Event5]

I don't know how much this has been discussed but Daylight Savings Time will start a month earlier this year in just a little over a month on March 11th. I found This Blog with a list of links to patches for various applications.
Thought you would be interested,
Dave

 

[electron]

Great post! The link reminded me of a few systems I didn't think of updating.

 

[Event5]

Many of us have clients that will be calling.
Dave

 

[Spanky]

The latest M1 software upgrade has the new Daylight Savings Time implimented.

 

[rocco]

. . . but Daylight Savings Time will start a month earlier this year . . .

Is this another sign of global warming? :blink:

 

[jwilson56]

Well I will be retired.. so those 100 PC's at work will be someone elses problem.. lol

:blink:

John

 

[BLH]

Microsoft has a patch for Windows XP and Daylight Savings Time.
Thanks for the link. I will have to see if anything else I have needs a patch. Like the sunset sunrise database for my Insteon Timers and Ken Millers InHomeFree.

 

[Aquatic]

If I recall correctly, Microsoft's line is that "CURRENT" software/OS will be available to be patched--that means anything in the XP Family that's NOT SP2 (Service Pack 2) may not get a patch.

I don't think Server2000 will get any free patches either--in fact, you CAN buy the patches for non-supported SW, for about $4K a pop.

Media Center is XP Professional with add ons, so make sure it's up to date as well. Windows update "Can" be your friend!

 

[damage]

win2k, etc. can be patched manually using tzedit.exe from msft:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/8...c52f/tzedit.exe

as described in this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387

 

[electron]

Here's a great tool I used on a few win2k machines:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/Downloads.htm?...rkAdministrator

There is a free version too (scroll down), but the trial lets you do it remotely.

I guess even if all your clocks are synced with a local NTP server, you are still going to need this patch. Fun!