DST2007

Daylight Savings Time changes 2007

The United States has passed a law to extend the Daylight Savings Time (DST) window: DST now becomes active March 11th 2007 and ends November 4th 2007. In prior years the DST started 3 weeks later on April 1st and ended one week earlier Oct 28th. These two periods (3/11/07 to 4/1/07 and 10/28/07 to 11/4/07) are the extended DST in which calendar appointments are affected and may be shifted by one hour.

The IS department has applied appropriate patches to all IS managed desktop computers and is finalizing patches to IS managed server systems. However, there is no automatic fix that IS can apply to correct time settings for each appointment in the extended DST time frames.

We require all email/calendar users to carefully review and correct appointments scheduled for this extended DST.

What you can do to ensure your appointments are correct:

Review the calendar entries in the above defined extended DST. Consider any calendar items in this extended DST to be suspect. If you are not sure, verify the correct time with the organizer.
Appointments send to you from external contacts may also be affected and should be validated.
When a meeting is organized during the extended DST period, write the correct meeting time in the subject line or body of the message. For example, include the following text in the subject line or body of the message: Project planning meeting - 8:30 a.m.

To help keep track of the calendar items that are scheduled during the Extended DST period print your weekly calendars for the extended DST period.

Windows98 computers are not supported with a fix and the DST settings need to be corrected manually. You can download instructions here.

If you need help please contact the helpdesk at ext. 4295 or email helpdesk@u-46.org

For additional information about the DST impact beyond U-46 computer systems please visit:

http://www.microsoft.com/dst2007/

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/18564.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305056

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17135007


	Home About Us Report on School Visits Technology in U-46 Technology Projects Instructional Technology Contact Us	Daylight Savings Time changes 2007 The United States has passed a law to extend the Daylight Savings Time (DST) window: DST now becomes active March 11th 2007 and ends November 4th 2007. In prior years the DST started 3 weeks later on April 1st and ended one week earlier Oct 28th. These two periods (*3/11/07 to 4/1/07* and 10/28/07 to 11/4/07) are the extended DST in which calendar appointments are affected and may be shifted by one hour. The IS department has applied appropriate patches to all IS managed desktop computers and is finalizing patches to IS managed server systems. However, there is no automatic fix that IS can apply to correct time settings for each appointment in the extended DST time frames. We require all email/calendar users to carefully review and correct appointments scheduled for this extended DST. What you can do to ensure your appointments are correct: Review the calendar entries in the above defined extended DST. Consider any calendar items in this extended DST to be suspect. If you are not sure, verify the correct time with the organizer. Appointments send to you from external contacts may also be affected and should be validated. When a meeting is organized during the extended DST period, write the correct meeting time in the subject line or body of the message. For example, include the following text in the subject line or body of the message: Project planning meeting - 8:30 a.m. To help keep track of the calendar items that are scheduled during the Extended DST period print your weekly calendars for the extended DST period. Windows98 computers are not supported with a fix and the DST settings need to be corrected manually. You can download instructions here. If you need help please contact the helpdesk at ext. 4295 or email helpdesk@u-46.org For additional information about the DST impact beyond U-46 computer systems please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/dst2007/ http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/18564.html http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305056 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17135007
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