Patching for the New Daylight Savings Time

February 18th, 2007

As I am sure you know, daylight savings time has been lengthened and will run from March 11th to November 4th. Because of this change, if you are running XP or previous versions of Windows, you will need to patch your operating system. Additionally, if you run Microsoft Outlook, you will need to patch it as well (corporate domains can patch Exchange instead of having to patch each individual client).  Here’s some necessary reading and links to get your system ready for the new DST.

  1. February 2007 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems. 
  2. How to address the daylight saving time changes in 2007 by using the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook
  3. Windows Mobile Updates for Daylight Saving Time (PocketPC)
  4. Windows Mobile Updates for Daylight Saving Time (Desktop Tool)
Posted by shamanstears Filed in Reference, Microsoft Office, Windows XP

2 Responses to “Patching for the New Daylight Savings Time”

  1. Davak Says:
    February 18th, 2007 at 5:39 pm

    Very cool. I hope this is pushed out as a high priority update. I am sure a lot of the nongeeks out there will never pick this up otherwise.

  2. Jim Van Winkle Says:
    March 10th, 2007 at 1:34 pm

    I disabled windows updates. I use slavlik for updates and don’t have any problems. I am wondering if slavlik will include the patch for DST 2007. Otherwise if I don’t get a patch from Microsoft will changing the manual clock change handle everything.

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