Hopefully most of you are aware of the impending DST change, which was mandated by Congress back in 2005. For the first time in 20 years, daylight saving time will not start on the first Sunday in April. Instead, it will begin three weeks earlier, at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, the 11th and last until November 2007. (woo-hoo for more hours of sunlight!!)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/02/AR2007030201346.html?nav=rss_technology
The change was included in a bill called the Energy Policy Act of 2005
http://www.energy.gov/about/EPAct.htm
http://www.doi.gov/iepa/EnergyPolicyActof2005.pdf
Below you will find a couple solutions relating to altering your time clock before any technical problems arise…..
The workaround that Microsoft provides is not easy to follow.
The KB article at Microsoft.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387
Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Center
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst
An easier choice would be just togo here:
This program utility will update windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista machines to the new USA daylight saving time requirements in 2007 in one easy step:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/downloads.htm
http://www.intelliadmin.com/DaylightSavingFix.exe
It updates Daylight Saving Time (Yes it is Saving, not Savings) in these time zones:
- Alaska Standard Time Zone
- Central Standard Time Zone
- Eastern Standard Time Zone
- Mountain Standard Time Zone
- Pacific Standard Time Zone
- Atlantic Standard Time Zone (Canada)
- Newfoundland Standard Time Zone (Canada)
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