Daylight Savings Time Microsoft Update 2007

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Purcy · #1 Post by **Purcy** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:16 pm

Just a reminder to everyone, that if you don't take Automatic Updates for Windows, you may want to go bring down the Windows Update that updates the clock for the new Daylight Savings Time, as it will start 3 weeks earlier and end 3 weeks later from now on. I had to update Windows, my Outlook and my Windows Mobile that syncs with Outlook.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/ ... fault.mspx

If you just want to update the clock system in Windows (laptop or PC):

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931836

#2 Post by **rkawakami** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:29 pm

Here's some additional information directly from the people who should know, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST):

http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/general/dst.htm

Reading this article I was surprised that TZ rules are actually the responsibility of the U. S. Department of Transportation

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This ought to be fun watching all of the timekeeping equipment in my house getting confused. VCR (which can never seem to lock onto the PBS time signal), DVR (that has a built-in TV Guide schedule), the DishNetwork satellite receiver, the many computers (Windows, Unix and Mac), and of course all of the ones I manually have to adjust twice every year anyway. There are two that I don't have to worry about; Oregon Scientific Atomic Clocks, synchronized to NIST. Just wish I could use them as local NTP servers

Purcy · #3 Post by **Purcy** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:36 pm

I'd like to start a betting poll here on how long it will take Mr. Ray to fix all the clocks in his laptop harem

#4 Post by **rkawakami** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:00 pm

If I leave them all off for the next 8 months or so, then they'll be back to the correct time

. I wonder if I can get them all online at the same time and go through the MS DST update?

Purcy · #5 Post by **Purcy** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:01 pm

I don't see why not, throw a network card in each one and get that gaggle of computers updating; Microsoft Update won't know what hit 'em!

#6 Post by **archer6** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:49 pm

I'm running Win XP Pro SP2, and MS Office 2003

Can this be accomplished by using Microsoft Update or does it have to be done manually?

The MS page that adresses XP talks about registry mods. Is this required or is there a patch that autmatically makes the required changes?

And about Office 2003, again is there a single patch or?

Thanks.

#7 Post by **GomJabbar** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:40 pm

Windows Update has the fix for this issue: Update for Windows XP (KB931836). That is how I got the update. If you use Automatic Updates, it will be applied. Purcy posted the link for more information on that update.

Here is another link with guided help: Daylight Saving Time Update Guide

Here is some information for Vista, XP, and Outlook (from above link): Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Center for IT professionals

I am not seeing anything specific on Office with a cursory look.

#8 Post by **archer6** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:54 pm

GomJabbar wrote:Windows Update has the fix for this issue: Update for Windows XP (KB931836). That is how I got the update. If you use Automatic Updates, it will be applied. Purcy posted the link for more information on that update.

Here is another link with guided help: Daylight Saving Time Update Guide

Here is some information for Vista, XP, and Outlook (from above link): Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Center for IT professionals

I am not seeing anything specific on Office with a cursory look.

Thanks for the excellent info and your fast response! Just what I was looking for.

Cheers...

egibbs · #9 Post by **egibbs** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:19 am

Just a caveat for those who connect to an Exchange server or PDA.

As I read the MS instructions the patch should be applied to the Exchange server first before updating the client machines, and to a PC before updating a PDA that synchs to it.

Many IT departments are lagging on this becasue of the complexity of updating Blackberries, remote laptops, etc. I asked my IT guys when they would be patching our Exchange server and they didn't have an answer yet. If MS is really going to push the patch to clients when many Exchange servers are not yet patched there may be issues.

Ed Gibbs

Purcy · #10 Post by **Purcy** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:16 am

Actually there are 3 updates if you activesync to a PDA using Windows Mobile OS - you need to download all 3 but update the PC first, then update Outlook (which the PDA syncs to) then sync the PDA and install the Mobile update into the PDA. It actually only took 10 minutes and both my PC and Axim PDA all show correct times for the 3 weeks in question.

#11 Post by **archer6** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:14 pm

Purcy wrote:Actually there are 3 updates if you activesync to a PDA using Windows Mobile OS - you need to download all 3 but update the PC first, then update Outlook (which the PDA syncs to) then sync the PDA and install the Mobile update into the PDA. It actually only took 10 minutes and both my PC and Axim PDA all show correct times for the 3 weeks in question.

Thanks, as I use the same setup and this is the exact info I need. I will follow the sequence you outlined here.

Cheers

richp · #12 Post by **richp** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:17 pm

Whoop, thought I was all done, gotta find out about my replay 4580..

Daylight Savings Time Microsoft Update 2007

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