Daylight Saving Time in the USA will be arriving earlier than it has before. Actually, it will begin a week from this coming Sunday. The new schedule is for it to start the second week of March, and end on the first Sunday of November.
Our computers had been programmed to adjust automatically, at the right time, but only under the old DST schedules. They're not programmed properly anymore, and with the change it means it will be an hour off until the old-time-change date, and an hour wrong again after the last Sunday of October.
Here's what needed to upgrade your machine for the new schedule.
Windows XP: If you've been getting you upgrades, the new routine is a part of the last months upgrades. If you haven't already, you'll need to update before the 11th. If you update only the date routine, it's named 'KB931836', and is available at Microsoft's site.
Windows 98: Windows 98 isn't supported any longer, but there is a tool on the Windows 98 CD called 'txedit' contained in the folder "\tools\reskit\config". You can use it to change the start and end dates for DST.
The new settings are:
Start Day = the Second Sunday of March
Last Day = the First Sunday of November
Windows 2000: I've been told that the Windows 2000 CD contains the same 'txedit' tool, but I've also been told that it can't be found on it. Regardless, the Windows 98 version seems to work on Windows 2000 with no problem.
I've no idea what's available for a Mac. As far as I know, those users might even ignore the calendar the rest of us use, and have some sort of proprietary calendar that only they use.
Edit: I've been informed that the utility for Windows 98 is named tzedit instead of txedit.
Our computers had been programmed to adjust automatically, at the right time, but only under the old DST schedules. They're not programmed properly anymore, and with the change it means it will be an hour off until the old-time-change date, and an hour wrong again after the last Sunday of October.
Here's what needed to upgrade your machine for the new schedule.
Windows XP: If you've been getting you upgrades, the new routine is a part of the last months upgrades. If you haven't already, you'll need to update before the 11th. If you update only the date routine, it's named 'KB931836', and is available at Microsoft's site.
Windows 98: Windows 98 isn't supported any longer, but there is a tool on the Windows 98 CD called 'txedit' contained in the folder "\tools\reskit\config". You can use it to change the start and end dates for DST.
The new settings are:
Start Day = the Second Sunday of March
Last Day = the First Sunday of November
Windows 2000: I've been told that the Windows 2000 CD contains the same 'txedit' tool, but I've also been told that it can't be found on it. Regardless, the Windows 98 version seems to work on Windows 2000 with no problem.
I've no idea what's available for a Mac. As far as I know, those users might even ignore the calendar the rest of us use, and have some sort of proprietary calendar that only they use.
Edit: I've been informed that the utility for Windows 98 is named tzedit instead of txedit.
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