DST 2007

DST 2007: December 2007 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems

The last time we took a look at the timezone changes was when the August 2007 cumulative time zone update was released (Read previous post: “DST 2007: August 2007 Cumulative Timezone Update for Windows operating systems“). The August 2007 update included new timezone data for Caucasus Standard Time, Armenian Standard Time, New Zealand Standard Time, […]

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DST 2007: August 2007 Cumulative Timezone Update for Windows operating systems

In case we all forgot about the DST 2007 nightmare (read previous post: “DST 2007: Understanding what needs to be done and how to do it“) we had to live through earlier this year, this update serves as a reminder. It hasn’t really been that long! :) Microsoft has released a new timezone update – […]

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DST 2007: Hotfix released for Exchange Server 2003 Message Tracking issue

Following DST 2007 patches, Exchange’s Message Tracking Center displayed times that were an hour off (though the actual times logged in the Message Tracking log were correctly logged in UTC), as noted in previous post titled “DST 2007: Exchange’s Message Tracking off by an hour“. Microsoft recently released a hotfix to correct this rendering issue […]

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DST 2007: As predicted, we didn’t save much energy afterall!

It seems the early verdicts are in, and as predicted by various experts, including the Department of Energy [read previous post “DST 2007: DoE isn’t convinced new DST will save energy!“], we didn’t end up saving much energy in the first three weeks of this extended Daylight Savings Time to justify this shift, and all […]

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DST 2007: Why we needed to rebase appointments

I thought I wouldn’t need to post about DST 2007 issues after it kicked in on Sunday March 11th this year, but apparently that doesn’t seem to be the case. In a previous post (that I’ve referred to a number of times now) titled “DST 2007: Understanding what needs to be done and how to […]

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DST 2007: Energy Policy Act of 2005 – the few lines…

I’ve been wanting to post about this for a few days now, and as we wind down towards the earlier onset of Daylight Savings Time this year, hopefully with most of us having dealt with DST 2007 issues already, there couldn’t be a better time than this. If you haven’t reached the finish line with […]

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DST 2007: Is there an Outlook DST “patch”?

There seems to be some confusion about whether Outlook itself has a DST 2007 patch. As noted in a previous post “DST 2007: Understanding what needs to be done and how to do it“, there’s the Outlook Calendar Update Tool – TzMove.exe (“Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook” in Microsoft-speak). This is […]

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DST 2007: The order of things, again!

As we wind down towards the DST 2007 deadline, I’ve still been getting quite a few questions about this in the past day or two. This has been covered and repeated quite a bit over the past few days, but here it is once again. Here’s what Microsoft recommends on its DST 2007 web site:1. […]

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Zenprise Webinar availabe OnDemand: Updating Daylight Savings Time for BlackBerry & Exchange

Zenprise held a webinar titled “Updating Daylight Savings Time for BlackBerry & Exchange” on Friday March 23rd. The archived webinar is now available on the Zenprise web site [registration required].

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Switching your Linux systems to the new DST

Over on Linux-Watch, Steven Vaughan-Nichols shows you how to update Linux systems for DST 2007. As a sidenote to the above, Windows systems also use NTP (Network Time Protocol) to synchronize clocks to reliable time sources. This is required in Active Directory environments, for Kerberos v5 authentication. In an AD domain, all client computers and […]

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