Microsoft Produces Critical Daylight Savings Time Update for Windows Products
– Jaime Gray
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is a system of handling the changing amounts of daylight throughout the year. According to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the DST will be extending by approximately four weeks beginning in 2007. DST will start three weeks earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday of March) and will end one week later (2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday of November) than what had traditionally occurred. In 2007, the start and stop dates will be March 11 and November 4, respectively.
The Daylight Saving Time modification will impact organizations in the United States, Canada and possibly those with customers, partners or operations within North America. For more information about the areas affected by the DST modification please refer to the following Microsoft article section: Areas affected by this change in daylight saving time
Microsoft will be producing an update for Windows products as well as other products affected by the new U.S. statute. Some of these updates are currently available and a remainder is scheduled to be released in early March 2007. For more information regarding the different products that required an update please refer to the following Microsoft article sections: Supporting the DST changes on Windows operating systems and Preparing other Microsoft software products for the 2007 DST changes.
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