The change in daylight saving time will have only minimal effects for most home pc users. Applying Microsoft updates will fix the time on most newer operating systems. If you use Outlook calendar for your schedule or Microsoft Exchange Server for business meetings things get a little more complicated.
Microsoft has made patches and tools to correct meeting times in the affected weeks.
All users of Microsoft products affected by the time change should give extra attention to meetings and appointments scheduled between March 11, 2007 to April 1, 2007 and October 28, 2007 to November 4, 2007 (from support.microsoft.com)
According to an article at Computer Reseller Magazine. Wrong times on emails could cause legal issues:
"It will be important for insurance companies and lawyers that deal with time stamps on e-mails, for example," The article said. "Documents could be an hour late because someone didn't do their patch management. If a lawyer is an hour late getting something to a judge, is the judge going to allow you to say, 'I didn't get in on time because my company didn't put a patch on my Windows machine?' What do you think the judge would do?"
Besides meetings and scheduling we feel time clock could also be affected be the change or lack of change during the affected weeks.
If companies have servers and exspcially customer with Exchange Servers they should have an IT person apply all DLT patches and fixes from Microsoft or their software providers.
Here are details we are posting on our website at http://www.microdoctor.com/DLT
The Outlook Update Tool from Microsoft is located at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e343a233-b9c8-4652-9dd8-ae0f1af62568&DisplayLang=en
Change in daylight saving time: |
Previously DST started on: |
With the new law, DST will start on: |
Previous DST ended on: |
With the new law, DST will end on: |
First Sunday of April |
Second Sunday of March |
Last Sunday of October |
First Sunday of November |
Would have been: April 1, 2007 |
Will now be: March 11, 2007 |
Would have been: October 28, 2007 |
Will now be: November 4, 2007 |
Areas affected by this change in daylight saving time: |
Windows Vista |
No update needed |
Updated time zone definitions will ship with Windows Vista. |
Windows XP SP2
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 SP1
Windows Embedded for Point of Service
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs |
Update available |
The Windows XP SP2 (also applicable to Windows Embedded for Point of Service and Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs) and Windows Server 2003 updates are available for production deployment for all customers through the Microsoft Download Center , Knowledge Base article 931836 , Windows Update and WSUS. While this update is currently being offered as optional, once the Outlook and the Exchange Time Zone Update tools are completed, Microsoft expects to change the classification of 931836 to high priority or critical. At this time all customers should have removed the test version of the Windows time zone update released under Knowledge Base article 924840 . |
Windows Small Business Server 2003 Std Ed.
Windows Small Business Server 2003 Prem Ed.
Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 Std Ed.
Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 Prem Ed. |
No update needed |
At this time there are no unique Small Business Server 2003 updates required. However, please note there may be updates required to several SBS components (Windows Server, Exchange Server, Outlook 2003, Windows SharePoint Services, SQL Server). |
Windows 2000 |
Update available - (under Extended Hotfix Support) |
Windows 2000 has passed the end of Mainstream Support and will not be receiving an update without Extended Hotfix Support.
All versions of Windows can be manually updated using the tzedit.exe utility or other techniques documented in Knowledge Base article 914387 , Online Webcast 930688 , and similar articles for other countries, which is the preferred method of remediation for any product outside of Mainstream Support. (The tzedit.exe tool allows you to create and edit time zone entries for the Date/Time settings in the Control Panel, especially for daylight-saving time). |
Windows XP SP1 |
Not Supported |
Windows XP SP1 is no longer supported. Find information regarding support options for Windows XP SP1. |
Windows NT 4 |
Not Supported |
Windows NT4 is no longer supported. Find information regarding support options for Windows NT4.
All versions of Windows can be manually updated using the tzedit.exe utility or other techniques documented in Knowledge Base article 914387 and similar articles for other countries, which is the preferred method of remediation for any product outside of Mainstream Support. |
Product Family |
No Update Needed |
Update Available |
Windows Server |
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Windows Server 2003 SP1
Windows Server 2003
Windows 2000 Advanced Server Service Pack 4
Windows Embedded for Point of Service
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs |
Windows Client |
Windows Vista |
Windows XP Home SP2
Windows XP Professional SP2 |
Exchange Server |
Exchange Server 2007 |
Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2
Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Exchange Server 2003 Lotus Notes Connector
Exchange Server 2000
Exchange Conferencing Server 2000 |
Outlook |
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Outlook 2007
Outlook 2003
Outlook 2002 (Outlook XP)
Outlook 2000 |
Windows SharePoint Services |
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 |
Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 |
SQL Server Notification Services |
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SQL Server 2005 Notification Services
SQL Server 2000 Notification Services |
Office Live Meeting |
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Office Live Meeting |
Dynamics CRM |
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Dynamics CRM 3.0 (as of March 2007) |
Visual SourceSafe |
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Visual SourceSafe 2005 and 6.0d |
Windows Mobile |
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Windows Mobile |
Windows CE |
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Windows CE-based devices |
Entourage |
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Entourage |
