InfoWorld Membership Systems, LLC New Daylight Savings Time rules for 2007 will impact your business.
While the changes to the Daylight Savings Time (DST) rules will not have the impact of the Y2K changes, it will require a serious review of your business systems and fixes from your software vendors.
Under the previous rules, DST was from the First Sunday of April to the Last Sunday of October; or, for 2007 this would have been from April 1, 2007 to October 28, 2007.
With the new law, DST will start on the Second Sunday of March to the First Sunday of November, or, for 2007 this will be from March 11, 2007 to November 4, 2007
The extra time from March 11 to April 1 and October 28 to November 4 is not currently coded in the operating systems and applications that tell your systems to adjust for DST.
While the changes in DST rules apply to U.S. and Canada, the changes may affect users based outside of these countries.
Most of the major hardware/software vendors have web information dedicated to the issue.
We have listed below some of the URL's about the 2007 changes to the Daylight Savings Time (DST) rules that will impact every home & business computer and most applications that manage time-stamps, calendars, and other time sensitive applications.
Some of the procedures for fixing the DST rules in the software can be overwhelming, contact us for assistance.
Check the Daylight Savings Time box in the Services section of the Contact Us form.
We can either perform the updates for you or act as your technical contact to other vendors.
Microsoft:
According to the Microsoft site, "In many cases, making the necessary changes to accommodate the new DST legislation will be a relatively minor task. Users may need to manually adjust the time on their devices when the change occurs.
In other cases, more substantial efforts may be required. In some cases, systems and applications may need to be updated directly, while in others, the application may simply inherit or "read" the date and time information
from the underlying system that it resides on so the changes need only be made to that underlying system. Given the broad range of technology in use today-and the integration of systems between customers, vendors,
and partners-business and IT managers should determine what actions should be taken to mitigate the affects of DST 2007 on their organizations."
Based on information from Microsoft, these products will be affected by the new DST rules for 2007 based on the H.R. 6 Energy legislation:
- Windows Client, all current Windows versions except VISTA
- Windows Server, all current versions
- Windows Mobile, Windows CE
- Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
- Microsoft Exchange Server, all versions
- Microsoft Office Outlook, all versions
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM, all versions
- Microsoft Biztalk Server, all versions
- Microsoft SQL Server Notification Services, all versions
- Microsoft Entourage, all versions
- Older Microsoft Operating Systems and Applications
- Preparing for daylight saving time changes in 2007
- 2007 time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems
- How to update daylight saving time for the United States, Canada, and Mexico in 2007 on Windows CE-based devices
- Addressing the daylight saving time changes in 2007 using the Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool
- Description of the Microsoft Windows registry
IBM
SUN
- Sun's 2007 Daylight Savings Time Changes web site
- Overview and Mitigation of the USA2007DST Issue for the Java SE platform and Solaris OS
CISCO
- U.S. Daylight Saving Time (DST) Changes for 2007
- Field Notice: FN - 62646 - US Daylight Savings Time Policy Change Effective March 2007 - for Wireless Products
- Field Notice: FN - 62613 - U.S. Daylight Savings Time Policy Changes Effective March 2007 - for Cisco IOS Software