DST instructions for PC and PDA

[John Dutton]

Anyone that is utilizing automatic updates on their desktop/laptop should
have the fix automatically installed.  This is Microsoft hotfix KB931836.
If in doubt one can click on:

Start >Control Panel >Add/Remove Programs

Make sure the box is checked for "Show Updates"

Scroll towards the bottom of the list and check for "Windows Software
updates-Update for Windows XP (KB931836)". 

If it is not there, then one should run Windows Update (or Microsoft Update)
and download the fix.  Alternately, the link is here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931836.

 

After running this update the computer's Daylight Savings Time will be
fixed.  If not, then no amount of monkeying with times will rectify the
problem in the given calendar program (this is not just a M$ Office issue)
until last year's DST dates occur.  Just for the record the dates have been
moved from previous years by Congress.  Of course if you live outside the US
or in Arizona or about three counties in Indiana you are unaffected as they
don't observe DST anyway.

 

Quote: Starting in the spring of 2007, daylight saving time (DST) start and
end dates for the United States will transition to comply with the Energy
Policy Act of 2005. DST dates in the United States will start three weeks
earlier, at 2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March. DST will end one week
later, at 2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November.  This results in a new
DST period that is four weeks longer than in previous years. Unless certain
updates are applied to your computer, the time zone settings for your
computer's system clock may be incorrect during this four-week period. In
particular, you must make sure that both your Windows operating system and
your calendar programs are updated.

 

95% of you will already have KB931836 installed on your laptop/desktop from
the Automatic Update and will only need to manually update a PDA.  The PDA
link is
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/daylightsaving/daylightdownload.mspx
.  If anyone has any questions about how to go about this feel free to email
me.  I can walk you through it.

 

John Dutton

Billings, MT

duttonjw at gmail.com

 

 

 

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